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List of Plasmodium species False-colored electron micrograph of a sporozoite Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Clade: Diaphoretickes Clade: TSAR Clade: SAR Clade: Alveolata Phylum: Apicomplexa Class: Aconoidasida Order: Haemospororida Family: Plasmodiidae Genus: Plasmodium Marchiafava & Celli, 1885 Subgenera Plasmodium (Bennettinia) Plasmodium (Carinamoeba) Plasmodium (Giovannolaia ...
P. elongatum infects 21 bird families and 59 species of bird. Additional host species are given under the link Plasmodium elongatum. P. dominicana is a species known only from fossil amber. [16] It is thought to have been a species infecting birds. It has been placed in the subgenus Nyssorhynchus.
Avian malaria is a parasitic disease of birds, caused by parasite species belonging to the genera Plasmodium and Hemoproteus (phylum Apicomplexa, class Haemosporidia, family Plasmoiidae). [1] The disease is transmitted by a dipteran vector including mosquitoes in the case of Plasmodium parasites and biting midges for Hemoproteus.
Over 150 species of Plasmodium infect a broad variety of birds. In general each species of Plasmodium infects one to a few species of birds. [28] Plasmodium parasites that infect birds tend to persist in a given host for years or for the life time of the host, although in some cases Plasmodium infections can result in severe illness and rapid ...
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct. Contents
Subgenus Plasmodium Bray 1963 emend. Garnham 1964; Subgenus Sauramoeba Garnham 1966; Subgenus Vinckeia Garnham 1964; Genus Polychromophilus Landau et al 1984; Genus Rayella Dasgupta 1967; Genus Saurocytozoon Lainson & Shaw 1969; Genus †Vetufebrus Poinar 2011; The genus Mesnilium is the only taxon that infects fish. The genus has a single ...
Binomial name; Plasmodium relictum. Grassi & Feletti, 1891. ... It is a parasite, and the most common cause of malaria in birds. [3] Like all Plasmodium species, ...
A revision of the genus Plasmodium by Levine in 1985 considered this subgenus to be a synonym of Plasmodium. The description of a new species Plasmodium siamense by Telford in 1986 lead to a resurrection of this as a subgenus. Further revision of its taxonomic status has led to its elevation to genus status. Species in this genus infect birds ...