Plasmodium relictum

Plasmodium relictum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Alveolata
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Class: Aconoidasida
Order: Haemospororida
Family: Plasmodiidae
Genus: Plasmodium
Subgenus: Haemamoeba
Species:
P. relictum
Binomial name
Plasmodium relictum
Grassi & Feletti, 1891
Synonyms
  • Haemamoeba majoris Laveran, 1902 (partim)[1]
  • Haemamoeba relicta Grassi and Feletti, 1891[1]
  • Haemoproteus alaudae Celli and Sanfelice, 1891 (partim)[1]
  • Plasmodium alaudae (Celli and Sanfelice, 1891) emend. Garnham, 1966[1]
  • Plasmodium biziurae (Gilruth, Sweet and Dodd, 1910) emend. Coatney and Roudabush, 1936[1]
  • Plasmodium capistrani Russell, 1932[1]
  • Plasmodium chloropsidis Mello, 1935[1]
  • Plasmodium grassii Labbé, 1894, emend. Coatney and Roudabush, 1936[1]
  • Plasmodium inconstans Hartman, 1927[1]
  • Plasmodium maior Raffaele, 1930[1]
  • Plasmodium majoris Lühe, 1906[1]
  • Plasmodium muniae (Das Gupta and Siddons, 1941) emend. Garnham, 1966[1]
  • Plasmodium paddae Brumpt, 1935[2][1]
  • Plasmodium passeris Johnston and Cleland, 1909[1]
  • Plasmodium pericrocoti Chakravarty and Kar, 1945[1]
  • Plasmodium ploceii Chakravarty and Kar, 1945[1]
  • Plasmodium praecox var. muniae Das Gupta and Siddons, 1941[1]
  • Plasmodium relictum biziurae Gilruth, Sweet and Dodd, 1910, emend. Garnham, 1966[1]
  • Plasmodium relictum capistranoae Russell, 1932, emend. Garnham, 1966[1]
  • Plasmodium relictum spheniscidae Fantham and Porter, 1944, emend. Garnham, 1966[1]
  • Plasmodium relictum var. spheniscidae Fantham and Porter, 1944[1]
  • Proteosoma biziurae Gilruth, Sweet and Dodd, 1910[1]
  • Proteosoma grassii Labbé, 1894[1]

Plasmodium relictum is a species in the genus Plasmodium, subgenus Haemamoeba.

It is a parasite, and the most common cause of malaria in birds.[3]

Like all Plasmodium species, P. relictum has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are birds.[3]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w "Plasmodium relictum". Invasive Species Compendium (ISC). CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International). 2019-12-02. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  2. ^ Valkiunas, Gediminas (28 October 2004). Avian Malaria Parasites and other Haemosporidia. CRC Press. p. 592. ISBN 9780203643792.
  3. ^ a b LaPointe, Dennis A.; Atkinson, Carter T.; Samuel, Michael D. (2012). "Ecology and conservation biology of avian malaria". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1249 (1). NYAS (WB): 211–226. Bibcode:2012NYASA1249..211L. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06431.x. ISSN 0077-8923. PMID 22320256. S2CID 1885904.