Plasmodium rouxi Sergent, Sergent & Catanei, 1928

Chavatte, Jean-Marc, Grès, Virginie, Snounou, Georges, Chabaud, Alain & Landau, Irène, 2009, Plasmodium (Apicomplexa) of the skylark (Alauda arvensis), Zoosystema 31 (2), pp. 369-383 : 378

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5252/z2009n2a8
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15006174
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6029414C-FF90-3A6B-DA01-FBDEFF19FEB7
treatment provided by	Marcus
scientific name	Plasmodium rouxi Sergent, Sergent & Catanei, 1928
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MATERIAL EXAMINED. — France. Landes, Saint-Julien-enBorn , 44°03’42’’N, 1°13’33’’W, blood smears of A. arvensis number 740U, 25.X.1996 ( MNHN P2-XXV , 24-43); GoogleMaps 741U, 25.X.1996 ( MNHN P2-XXV , 44-64).

DISTRIBUTION. — Algeria ( Sergent et al. 1928); new record for the Landes, France.

HOSTS. — Culex pipiens ( Sergent et al. 1928) (type host); Serinus canaria ( Sergent et al. 1928) ; Passer hispaniolensis ( Sergent et al. 1929) ; new record for Alauda arvensis .

REMARKS

The characters that allow to identify this species to P. rouxi are: the small size of the schizont, the rectangular form, the presence of four nuclei, the two unequal pigment grains, and the absence of the refractile globule characteristic of P. vaughani subspecies.