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Plasmodium semnopitheci

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

Plasmodium semnopitheci is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium and subgenus Vinckeia.

Like all Plasmodium species P. semnopitheci has both vertebrate and insect hosts. P. semnopitheci was isolated from a monkey.


The parasite was first described by Knowles in 1919.

The only known host of this species is the monkey Semnopithecus entellus.


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