Plasmodium multivacuolaris is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Novyella
Plasmodium multivacuolaris | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
Clade: | SAR |
Clade: | Alveolata |
Phylum: | Apicomplexa |
Class: | Aconoidasida |
Order: | Haemospororida |
Family: | Plasmodiidae |
Genus: | Plasmodium |
Species: | P. multivacuolaris
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Binomial name | |
Plasmodium multivacuolaris Valkiūnas et al., 2008
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Like all Plasmodium species P. multivacuolaris has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are birds.
Taxonomy
editThe parasite was first described by Valkiūnas et al. in 2008.[1]
Distribution
editThis parasite is found in West Africa.
Vectors
editNot known.
Hosts
editP. multivacuolaris infects the yellow-whiskered greenbul (Andropadus latirostris).
References
edit- ^ Valkiūnas G., Iezhova T.A., Loiseau C., Smith T.B., Sehgal R.N. (2008) New malaria parasites of the subgenus Novyella in African rainforest birds, with remarks on their high prevalence, classification and diagnostics. Parasitol. Res.