Plasmodium papernai
Plasmodium papernai is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Novyella.
Like all Plasmodium species P. papernai has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are birds.
| Plasmodium papernai | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Protista |
| Phylum: | Apicomplexa |
| Class: | Aconoidasida |
| Order: | Haemosporida |
| Family: | Plasmodiidae |
| Genus: | Plasmodium |
| Species: | P. papernai |
| Binomial name | |
| Plasmodium papernai | |
Description
The parasite was first described by Gres and Landau in 1997.[1]
References
- ↑ 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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