Hepatocystis perronae
Hepatocystis perronae is a species of parasitic protozoa. They are transmitted by flies of the genus Culicoides and infect mammals.
| Hepatocystis perronae | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| (unranked): | Diaphoretickes |
| Kingdom: | Chromista |
| Subkingdom: | Harosa |
| Infrakingdom: | Alveolata |
| Phylum: | Apicomplexa |
| Class: | Aconoidasida |
| Order: | Haemospororida |
| Family: | Plasmodiidae |
| Genus: | Hepatocystis |
| Species: | H. perronae |
| Binomial name | |
| Hepatocystis perronae Landau and Adam 1971 | |
Taxonomy
This species was described in 1971 by Landau and Adam.[1]
Distribution
This species is found in Angola and Congo-Brazzaville.
Hosts
This species infects the Angolan fruit bat (Lissonycteris angolensis) and the little collared fruit bat (Myonycteris torquata).
gollark: PALM can even understand jokes and such.
gollark: It can deduce things sometimes. There's an example somewhere.
gollark: Would most *humans* actually know about the relevant foundations of arithmetic? I think that axiomatic set theory isn't that popular.
gollark: How can you tell what it doesn't understand except based on its inputs/outputs?
gollark: You're basically just assuming how it works internally in order to claim that it's doing certain things internally.
References
- Landau I and Adam JP (1971) Description de schizontes de rechute chez un nouvel Haemoproteidae, n. sp. Hepatocytis perronde parasite de Megachiroptères africains. Cah. Orstrom, sér. Ed. méd. Parasifol. 9(4) 373-378
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