''Plasmodium elongatum'' is a
malaria
Malaria is a Mosquito-borne disease, mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates and ''Anopheles'' mosquitoes. Human malaria causes Signs and symptoms, symptoms that typically include fever, Fatigue (medical), fatigue, vomitin ...
parasite discovered by Hartman and first disclosed in Hartman 1927.
Study of it has been fundamental to understanding the
lifecycle of malaria
[
] along with study of ''
P. gallinaceum'', also a
malaria parasite of birds.
[
] It is the
type species
In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...
of the subgenus ''
Huffia''.
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]
References
elongatum
Apicomplexa species
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