Carinamoeba

Carinamoeba
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Alveolata
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Class: Aconoidasida
Order: Haemospororida
Family: Plasmodiidae
Genus: Plasmodium
Subgenus: Carinamoeba
Garnham, 1966
Species

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Carinamoeba is a subgenus of the genus Plasmodium - all of which are parasitic unicellular eukaryotes.

The subgenus was created in 1966 by Garnham.[1] Species in this subgenus infect reptiles.

  1. ^ Garnham P.C.C. (1966) Malaria parasttes and other haemospordia. Oxford, Blackwell