Plasmodium semnopitheci is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium and subgenus Vinckeia. As in all Plasmodium species, P. semnopitheci has both vertebrate and insect hosts. P. semnopitheci was isolated from a monkey.[1]
Plasmodium semnopitheci | |
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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. semnopitheci
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Binomial name | |
Plasmodium semnopitheci Knowles, 1919
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Taxonomy
editThe parasite was first described by Knowles in 1919.
Hosts
editThe only known host of this species is the northern plains gray langur (Semnopithecus entellus).
References
edit- ^ C. C. Bass (1921). The American Journal of Tropical Medicine, Volumes 1-2. Williams and Wilkins. p. 108. Retrieved 15 December 2016.