How Often Do You Feed Your Puffer? in the Puffers forums, part of the Freshwater Fish Forums category. Hello, I have a new Figure 8 Puffer.
apÂ·iÂ·comÂ·plexÂ·an. n. Any of a phylum (Apicomplexa) of protozoans that have a group of organelles and other structures located in the apical end of the cell. Apicomplexans are parasitic in animals and include the organisms that cause malaria and toxoplasmosis.
More specifically, Plasmodium belongs to the Apicomplexa group of protozoans, which are characterised as being parasites of animals, and possessing several unique characteristics, such as an apical complex structure used for invading host cells, and from which the group derives its name.