''Hepatocystis vassali'' is a species of parasitic protozoa that infect

mammal Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or ...

Taxonomy

The parasite was first described by

Laveran Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (18 June 1845 – 18 May 1922) was a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria ...

in 1905.

Hosts

The only known host is the red-bellied squirrel (''

Callosciurus flavimanus Pallas's squirrel (''Callosciurus erythraeus''), also known as the red-bellied tree squirrel, is a species of squirrel native to Greater China, India, and Southeast Asia. Description Pallas's squirrel is a medium-sized tree squirrel, with a ...

'').

References

Parasites of rodents Haemosporida {{Apicomplexa-stub zh:瘧原蟲