''Plasmodium booliati'' is a parasite of the genus ''
Plasmodium'' subgenus ''
Vinckeia
''Vinckeia'' is a subgenus of the genus ''Plasmodium'' — all of which are parasitic alveolates. The subgenus ''Vinckeia'' was created by Cyril Garnham in 1964 to accommodate the mammalian parasites other than those infecting the primates.
Dia ...
''. As in all ''Plasmodium'' species, ''P. booliati'' has both
vertebrate and
insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are
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 ...
s.
Taxonomy
The parasite was first described by Sandosham ''et al.'' in 1965.
[Sandosham A.A., Yap L.F., Omar I. (1965) A malaria parasite, ''Plasmodium (Vinckeia) booliati'' sp.nov., from a Malayan giant flying squirrel.
Med. J. Malaya 20(1):3-7]
Distribution
This species occurs in
Malaya
Malaya refers to a number of historical and current political entities related to what is currently Peninsular Malaysia in Southeast Asia:
Political entities
* British Malaya (1826–1957), a loose collection of the British colony of the Straits ...
.
Vectors
Not known.
Hosts
The only known host of this species is the Malayan giant
flying squirrel
Flying squirrels (scientifically known as Pteromyini or Petauristini) are a tribe of 50 species of squirrels in the family Sciuridae. Despite their name, they are not in fact capable of full flight in the same way as birds or bats, but they ar ...
.
References
booliati
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