''Plasmodium pelaezi'' is a parasite of the genus ''
Plasmodium
''Plasmodium'' is a genus of unicellular eukaryotes that are obligate parasites of vertebrates and insects. The life cycles of ''Plasmodium'' species involve development in a blood-feeding insect host which then injects parasites into a ver ...
'' subgenus ''
Sauramoeba
''Sauramoeba'' is a subgenus of the genus ''Plasmodium'', all of which are parasitic eukaryotes. The subgenus was created in 1966 by Garnham. Species in this subgenus infect reptiles.
Description
The original criterion for inclusion in this ...
''. As in all ''Plasmodium'' species ''P. pelaezi'' has both
vertebrate
Vertebrates () comprise all animal taxa within the subphylum Vertebrata () (chordates with backbones), including all mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. Vertebrates represent the overwhelming majority of the phylum Chordata, with c ...
and
insect
Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body ( head, thorax and abdomen), three ...
hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are
lizards.
Description
This species was first described by Malagón and Salmeron in 1988.
Distribution
This species was described in lizards found at
Chila de la Sal
Chila de la Sal Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Puebla in south-eastern Mexico
Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern ...
,
Puebla, Mexico.
Hosts
The only known host is the iguanid
lizard ''
Urosaurus bicarinatus bicarinatus''.
References
pelaezi
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