Plasmodium anasum

Plasmodium anasum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Alveolata
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Class: Aconoidasida
Order: Haemospororida
Family: Plasmodiidae
Genus: Plasmodium
Species:
P. anasum
Binomial name
Plasmodium anasum
Manwell & Kuntz, 1965

Plasmodium anasum is a species of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Giovannolaia.

Like all species in this genus it has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate host are birds.

Taxonomy

This species was described in 1965 by Manwell and Kuntz.[1]

References

  1. ^ Manwell, Reginald D.; Kuntz, Robert E. (1965). "A New Species of Plasmodium from the Formosan Shoveller Duck". Journal of Protozoology. 12 (1): 101–104. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.1965.tb01821.x. PMID 14298490.


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