| Plasmodium relictum
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| Scientific classification
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| Domain:
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Eukaryota
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| Clade:
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Sar
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| Clade:
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Alveolata
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| Phylum:
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Apicomplexa
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| Class:
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Aconoidasida
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| Order:
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Haemospororida
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| Family:
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Plasmodiidae
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| Genus:
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Plasmodium
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| Subgenus:
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Haemamoeba
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| Species:
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P. relictum
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| Binomial name
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Plasmodium relictum
Grassi & Feletti, 1891
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| Synonyms
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- Haemamoeba majoris Laveran, 1902 (partim)
- Haemamoeba relicta Grassi and Feletti, 1891
- Haemoproteus alaudae Celli and Sanfelice, 1891 (partim)
- Plasmodium alaudae (Celli and Sanfelice, 1891) emend. Garnham, 1966
- Plasmodium biziurae (Gilruth, Sweet and Dodd, 1910) emend. Coatney and Roudabush, 1936
- Plasmodium capistrani Russell, 1932
- Plasmodium chloropsidis Mello, 1935
- Plasmodium grassii Labbé, 1894, emend. Coatney and Roudabush, 1936
- Plasmodium inconstans Hartman, 1927
- Plasmodium maior Raffaele, 1930
- Plasmodium majoris Lühe, 1906
- Plasmodium muniae (Das Gupta and Siddons, 1941) emend. Garnham, 1966
- Plasmodium paddae Brumpt, 1935
- Plasmodium passeris Johnston and Cleland, 1909
- Plasmodium pericrocoti Chakravarty and Kar, 1945
- Plasmodium ploceii Chakravarty and Kar, 1945
- Plasmodium praecox var. muniae Das Gupta and Siddons, 1941
- Plasmodium relictum biziurae Gilruth, Sweet and Dodd, 1910, emend. Garnham, 1966
- Plasmodium relictum capistranoae Russell, 1932, emend. Garnham, 1966
- Plasmodium relictum spheniscidae Fantham and Porter, 1944, emend. Garnham, 1966
- Plasmodium relictum var. spheniscidae Fantham and Porter, 1944
- Proteosoma biziurae Gilruth, Sweet and Dodd, 1910
- Proteosoma grassii Labbé, 1894
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Plasmodium relictum is a species in the genus Plasmodium, subgenus Haemamoeba.
It is a parasite, and the most common cause of malaria in birds.
Like all Plasmodium species, P. relictum has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are birds.