Plasmodium bioccai 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 : 372

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5252/z2009n2a8
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15006161
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6029414C-FF9A-3A62-D937-FE64FDE3FA8C
treatment provided by	Marcus
scientific name	Plasmodium bioccai Chavatte & Landau, 2007
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MATERIAL EXAMINED. — France. Landes , Saint-Julienen-Born, 44°03’42’’N, 1°13’33’’W, blood smears of A. arvensis number 738U, 25.X.1996 ( MNHN P2 About MNHN -XXV, 1-23) GoogleMaps ; 741U, 25.X.1996 ( MNHN P2 About MNHN -XXV, 44-64) .

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 .

REMARKS

This species is comparable to that described in the magpie. The parasites lie in a rounded, prematurely hypertrophied and non-discoloured RBC with a condensed ellipsoid nucleus displaced to one of the edges. The schizonts are regular in shape, rounded or approximately oval with smooth contours. The chromatin, initially as granular masses of variable sizes, progressively fragments into distinct nuclei.The pigment is fine, loosely assembled in irregular rows, though agglomerated in some areas. Two mature schizonts were observed with 26 nuclei dispersed in the cytoplasm. The gametocytes lead to the same RBC modification as do the schizonts.