Plasmodium dherteae Chavatte & Landau, 2007

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 : 379

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5252/z2009n2a8
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15006176
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6029414C-FF93-3A6B-D93F-FEC6FE34FA8C
treatment provided by	Marcus
scientific name	Plasmodium dherteae Chavatte & Landau, 2007
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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. — Seine-Saint-Denis, France ( Chavatte et al. 2007); new record for the Landes, France.

HOSTS. — Pica pica (type host); new record for Alauda arvensis .

DESCRIPTION

This species is quite comparable to the one we have previously described in the magpie. The red blood cell is unaltered; schizonts are elongated and often extending beyond the RBC nucleus. Schizonts have six to 10 nuclei distributed irregularly, with one terminal nucleus at one extremity. The pigment is lateral and agglomerated.

REMARKS

This species should be compared to Plasmodium ashfordi Valkiūnas, Zehtindjiev, Hellgren, Ilieva, Iezhova &Bensch, 2007 , a recently described parasite of the great reed-warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus (Linnaeus, 1758) . Some of P. ashfordi elongated 7 or 8 nuclei schizonts resemble those of P. dherteae , but the fan-shaped schizonts considered to be “characteristic” of P. ashfordi were not observed in any of the skylarks we sampled.