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Plasmodium spp. (Apicomplexa: Plasmodiidae) of the flying lizardDraco volans (Agamidae)

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The agamid lizardDraco volans from Palawan, Republic of the Philippines, was found to be parasitised by threePlasmodium species:P. draconis n. sp.,P. volans n. sp. andP. vastator, Laird 1960. BothP. draconis andP. volans, but notP. vastator, were also present inD. volans from Sarawak. The species are readily distinguished by schizont size, merozoite number, and gametocyte size and shape.P. volans has schizonts approximately one-half the size of those ofP. draconis and produces 4–6 merozoites in comparison to 4–16 in the larger species. Gametocytes of both new species are predominantly oval in the Palawan sample and elongate in that from Sarawak.P. draconis gametocytes are approximately twice the size ofP. volans gametocytes, but on average no more than one-half the size of gametocytes ofP. vastator.

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Telford, S.R. Plasmodium spp. (Apicomplexa: Plasmodiidae) of the flying lizardDraco volans (Agamidae). Syst Parasitol 31, 53–60 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00009302

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