Kingdom Protista Class Aconoidasida Family Plasmodiidae | Phylum Apicomplexa Order Haemosporida Genus Plasmodium | |
Plasmodium coggeshalli is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Haemamoeba.
Like all Plasmodium species P. coggeshalli has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are birds.
Description
The parasite was first described by Gres and Landau in 1997.
References
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