trypanosomatidae meaning

• [Medicine]
  A suborder of monoflagellate parasitic protozoa that lives in the blood and tissues of man and animals. Representative genera include: Blastocrithidia,Leptomonas,CRITHIDIA,Herpetomonas,LEISHMANIA,Phytomonas,and TRYPANOSOMA. Species of this suborder may exist in two or more morphologic stages formerly named after genera exemplifying these forms - amastigote (LEISHMANIA),choanomastigote (CRITHIDIA),promastigote (Leptomonas),opisthomastigote (Herpetomonas),epimastigote (Blastocrithidia),and trypomastigote (TRYPANOSOMA). n pl : a family of strictly parasitic more or less slender and elongated uniflagellate protozoans of the order Kinetoplastida that includes some serious pathogens of humans and domestic animals and contains the genera Crithidia, Herpetomonas, Leishmania, Leptomonas, Phytomonas, and Trypanosoma
  

• They are traditionally divided into the biflagellate Bodonidae and uniflagellate Trypanosomatidae; the former appears to be paraphyletic to the latter.
• The morphology of the compact kinetoplast, nucleus, and rear-facing flagellum indicate the species belongs in the family Trypanosomatidae.

• "trypanosomatidae" meaning in Chinese: 锥虫科
• "trypanosomatidae" meaning in Japanese: {名} : トリパノソーマ科