Plasmodium pelaezi

Plasmodium pelaezi
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Infrakingdom: Alveolata
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Class: Aconoidasida
Order: Haemospororida
Family: Plasmodiidae
Genus: Plasmodium
Species:
P. pelaezi
Binomial name
Plasmodium pelaezi
Malagón and Salmeron, 1988

Plasmodium pelaezi is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Sauramoeba. As in all Plasmodium species P. pelaezi has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are lizards.

Description

This species was first described by Malagón and Salmeron in 1988.[1]

Schizonts are mostly round with a single mass of pigment and render the host cell nuclei spherical.

There are 16 merozoites in mature schizonts.

The gametocytes are round and oval and cause shrinkage of infected cells.

Distribution

This species was described in lizards found at Chila de la Sal, Puebla, Mexico.

Hosts

The only known host is the iguanid lizard Urosaurus bicarinatus bicarinatus.

References

  1. Malagón F. and Salmeron M. (1988) Plasmodium (Sauramoeba) pelaezi n. sp., a malaria parasite of the Mexican iguanid lizard Urosaurus bicarinatus bicarinatus (Dumeril, 1856) (Sauria: Iguanidae) System. Parasitol. 141-148


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