Vinckeia
Vinckeia is a subgenus of the genus Plasmodium — all of which are parasitic alveolates. The subgenus Vinckeia was created by Cyril Garnham in 1964 to accommodate the mammalian parasites other than those infecting the primates.
Diagnostic features
in this subgenus infect mammals other than the higher primates.Species infecting lemurs have since been included in this subgenus. This classification may not be correct.
Schizonts: These do not fill the erythrocyte and do not show true stippling. They give rise normally to 8 or fewer merozoites. Schizogony normally takes three days or less.
Merozoites:
Gametocytes: These are spherical.
Species in this subgenus
The following is a list of species in subgenus Vinckeia and their hosts.- Plasmodium achromaticum — insectivorous bat species
- Plasmodium aegyptensis — African grass rat
- Plasmodium anomaluri — African flying squirrel
- Plasmodium atheruri — African brush-tailed porcupine, Large vesper mouse and Mongolian gerbil, Anopheles stephensi
- Plasmodium berghei — the African woodland thicket rat, Anopheles stephensi
- Plasmodium booliati — the Malayan giant flying squirrel Petaurista petaurista
- Plasmodium bouillize
- Plasmodium brodeni — four-toed elephant shrews
- Plasmodium bubalis — water buffaloes
- Plasmodium bucki
- Plasmodium caprae — domestic goat
- Plasmodium cephalophi — the antelope and the common duiker/grey duiker
- Plasmodium cercopitheci
- Plasmodium chabaudi — Anopheles stephensi
- Plasmodium coulangesi
- Plasmodium cyclopsi — the Cyclops roundleaf bat
- Plasmodium foleyi
- Plasmodium girardi
- Plasmodium incertae — flying squirrel
- Plasmodium inopinatum
- Plasmodium joyeuxi
- Plasmodium landauae — African flying squirrels
- Plasmodium lemuris
- Plasmodium melanipherum — the common bent-wing bat/Schreibers' bat
- Plasmodium narayani
- Plasmodium odocoilei — white-tailed deer
- Plasmodium percygarnhami
- Plasmodium pulmophilium — African flying squirrel
- Plasmodium sandoshami — the Sunda flying lemur
- Plasmodium semnopitheci
- Plasmodium traguli — mouse deer
- Plasmodium tyrio — the Chinese pangolin
- Plasmodium uilenbergi
- Plasmodium vinckei rodents
- Plasmodium voltaicum — the Angolan rousette
- Plasmodium watteni — Formosan giant flying squirrel
- Plasmodium yoelii — ''Anopheles stephensi''