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Plasmodium paranucleophilum

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

Plasmodium paranucleophilum is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium.

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

The parasite was first described by Manwell and Sessler in 1971.

This species was described in South America.

The only known host is a tanager (Tachyphonus species).



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