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Plasmodium achromaticum

Plasmodium achromaticum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Class: Aconoidasida
Order: Haemosporida
Family: Plasmodiidae
Genus: Plasmodium
Species: P. achromaticum
Binomial name
Plasmodium achromaticum

Plasmodium achromaticum is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Vinckeia.

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

The parasite was first described by Yakimoff and Stolinikoff in 1912.

Not known.

The only known host for this species is the bat Achromaticum versperuginus.



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