Plasmodium buteonis

Plasmodium buteonis
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Infrakingdom: Alveolata
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Class: Aconoidasida
Order: Haemospororida
Family: Plasmodiidae
Genus: Plasmodium
Species:
P. buteonis
Binomial name
Plasmodium buteonis
Paperna et al., 2007

Plasmodium buteonis is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Giovannolaia.

Like all Plasmodium species P. buteonis has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are birds.

Taxonomy

The parasite was first described by Paperna et al. in 2007.[1]

Distribution

This parasite is found in Israel.

Hosts

P. buteonis infects the common buzzard (Buteo buteo).

References

  1. Paperna, I.; Yosef, R.; Landau, I. (2007). "Plasmodium spp. in raptors on the Eurasian-African migration route". Parasite. 14 (4): 313–322. doi:10.1051/parasite/2007144313. ISSN 1252-607X. PMID 18225420. open access


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