Plasmodium relictum

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

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

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

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

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