Plasmodium fairchildi
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| Plasmodium fairchildi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Chromalveolata |
| Phylum: | Apicomplexa |
| Class: | Aconoidasida |
| Order: | Haemosporida |
| Family: | Plasmodiidae |
| Genus: | Plasmodium |
| Species: | P. fairchildi |
| Binomial name | |
| Plasmodium fairchildi |
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Plasmodium fairchildi is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium.
Like all Plasmodium species it has vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts are reptiles. The insect vector is not known.
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[edit] Description
This species was described by Telford in 1989.
[edit] Geographic occurrence
This species has been described in the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.
[edit] Clinical features and host pathology
The only known host is the lizard Anolis cupreus.
[edit] Note
Two subspecies were recognised Plasmodium fairchildi fairchildi and Plasmodium fairchildi hispaniolae but the latter has been elevated to species level as Plasmodium hispaniolae.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Falk BG, Luke Mahler D, Perkins SL (2011) Tree-based delimitation of morphologically ambiguous taxa: A study of the lizard malaria parasites on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Int J Parasitol
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