Plasmodium anasum

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Plasmodium anasum
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Domain: Eukaryota
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.