Plasmodium coggeshalli

Plasmodium coggeshalli
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. coggeshalli
Binomial name
Plasmodium coggeshalli
Gres & Landau, 1997

Plasmodium coggeshalli is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Haemamoeba.

Like all Plasmodium species P. coggeshalli has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are birds.

Taxonomy

The type specimen had been originally classified as Plasmodium lophurae but was described as a new species by Gres and Landau in 1997 based on morphology of the parasite and host cell.[1]

References

  1. ^ Gres V. and Landau I. (1997) Les Plasmodium de Lophura (Phasianidae) : redescription de P. lophurae Coggeshall, 1938 et description de deux nouvelles espèces. Zoosystema 19 (4) 545-555


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