Plasmodium hexamerium Huff, 1935

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 : 380

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https://doi.org/10.5252/z2009n2a8

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15006184

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6029414C-FF92-3A6A-D9FA-FB5DFE9FF900

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scientific name

Plasmodium hexamerium Huff, 1935
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Plasmodium hexamerium Huff, 1935

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MATERIAL EXAMINED. — France. Landes, Saint-Julien-en-Born , 44°03’42’’N, 1°13’33’’W, blood smears of A. arvensis number 741U, 25.X.1996 ( MNHN P2-XXV , 44-64). GoogleMaps

DISTRIBUTION. — Illinois, USA ( Huff 1935); Seine-Saint-Denis, France ( Chavatte et al. 2007); new record for the Landes, France.

HOSTS. — Sialis sialis sialis, Huff (1935) (type host); new record for Alauda arvensis .

REMARKS

As for the magpie, the small apical or sub-apical schizonts with 6 nuclei are indistinguishable from those of P. hexamerium .

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

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