Plasmodium pelaezi

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Plasmodium pelaezi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Alveolata
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Class: Aconoidasida
Order: Haemospororida
Family: Plasmodiidae
Genus: Plasmodium
Species:
P. pelaezi
Binomial name
Plasmodium pelaezi
Malagón and Salmeron, 1988

Plasmodium pelaezi is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Sauramoeba . As in all Plasmodium species P. pelaezi has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are lizards.

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Description

This species was first described by Malagón and Salmeron in 1988. [1]

Distribution

This species was described in lizards found at Chila de la Sal, Puebla, Mexico.

Hosts

The only known host is the iguanid lizard Urosaurus bicarinatus bicarinatus .

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References

  1. ↑ Malagón, F.; Salmeron, M. (1988). "Plasmodium (Sauramoeba) pelaezi n. sp., a malaria parasite of the Mexican iguanid lizard Urosaurus bicarinatus bicarinatus (Dumeril, 1856) (Sauria: Iguanidae)". Systematic Parasitology . 12 (2): 141–148. doi:10.1007/BF00000148. S2CID   7993585.


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