Species Plasmodium malariae (Feletti & Grassi, 1889)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Haemamoeba malariae Feletti, R. & Grassi, B. 1889. Sui parassiti della malaria. Riforma medica 6: 62.

Generic Combinations

• Plasmodium malariae (Feletti & Grassi, 1889). —
  Garnham, P.C.C. 1966. Malaria Parasites and other Haemosporidia. Oxford : Blackwell Scientific Publishers 1114 pp.
• Plasmodium malariae (Feletti & Grassi, 1889). —
  ICZN 1954. Opinion 283. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 7: 225

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Anopheles punctulatus Dönitz, 1901 [CULICIDAE] Anopheline Mosquito; Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 [HOMINIDAE] Human (blood)).

Associated Fauna References

Black, R.H. 1960. Investigation of blood donors in accidental transfusion malaria - Plasmodium vivax, falciparum and malariae infections. Medical Journal of Australia 2: 446-449 (Homo sapiens)

Black, R.H. 1971. Malaria in Australia, 1970. Modern Medicine of Australia 10: 13-25 (Homo sapiens)

Black, R.H. 1972. Malaria in Australia. Commonwealth Department of Health Service Publication No. 9. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service. (Homo sapiens)

Black, R.H. 1976. Malaria in Australia, 1974. Modern Medicine of Australia 5: 29-32 (Homo sapiens)

Cilento, R. 1942. Tropical diseases in Australasia. Brisbane : W.R. Smith & Paterson. (Homo sapiens)

Cook, R.A. & Shannon, J. 1980. Malaria in southeast Queensland in 1979. Medical Journal of Australia 1: 670-673 (Homo sapiens)

Cumpston, J.H.L. 1989. Health and Disease in Australia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service. (Homo sapiens)

Ford, E. 1950. The malaria problem in Australia and the Australian Pacific territories. Medical Journal of Australia 1: 749-760 (Homo sapiens)

Jamieson, S. 1915. Malaria arising in a non-malarial district. Medical Journal of Australia 1: 163-164 (Homo sapiens)

Johnston, T.H. 1909. Notes on Australian entozoa. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 7: 329-344 (Homo sapiens)

Johnston, T.H. 1916. A census of the endoparasites recorded as occurring in Queensland, arranged under their hosts. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 28: 31-79 (Homo sapiens)

Mackerras, M.J. 1958. Catalogue of Australian mammals and their recorded internal parasites. Part I. Monotremes and marsupials. Part II. Eutheria. Part III. Introduced herbivora and the domestic pig. Part IV. Man. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 83: 101-160 (Homo sapiens)

Mackerras, M.J. & Ercole, Q.N. 1947. Observations on the action of paludrine on malarial parasites. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 41: 365-376 (Homo sapiens)

Mackerras, M.J. & Roberts, F.H.S. 1947. Experimental malarial infections in Australasian anophelines. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 41: 329-356 (Homo sapiens)

O'Brien, R.A. 1909. Ankylostomiasis and other tropical diseases in Queensland. Transactions of the Medical Congress 2: 324-328 (Homo sapiens)

Spencer, M. 1994. Malaria. The Australian experience 1843-1991. Townsville : Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (Image Print). (Anopheles punctulatus)

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