identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
09754517FFD58416FE1D49C7FE8F5CA9.text	09754517FFD58416FE1D49C7FE8F5CA9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Leucocytozoon podargii Adlard & Peirce & Lederer 2002	<div><p>Leucocytozoon podargii n. sp.</p> <p>(&#142;gures 1–4)</p> <p>Type host. Podargus strigoides (Latham) (tawny frogmouth).</p> <p>Type locality. Currumbin, Queensland, Australia.</p> <p>Basis of description</p> <p>Macrogametocyte. Only round morphs occur, exhibiting the usual characteristics of the genus. Maximum diameter is about 15 m m (table 1). Cytoplasm is granular with occasional hyaline vacuoles present; nucleus generally oval in shape occupying a central to subcentral position but lacking a distinct karyosome. Maximum length of the host–parasite complex is 17 m m. The host cell nucleus forms a cap around the periphery covering about one-third (&#142;gure 1), but in most infections about half the parasites were observed without any remnant of the host cell nucleus (&#142;gure 2).</p> <p>Microgametocyte. Similar in size to the macrogametocyt e with the usual diOEerentiating characteristics. The nucleus is dispersed but has a distinctive karyosome which stains a deep red (&#142;gure 3). The prevalence of microgametocytes is very low with the ratio to macrogametocyte s being 1:50.</p> <p>Schizonts. In histopathology sections stained with H and E, the presence of schizonts was observed in skeletal muscle, lung and spleen. The schizonts in muscle were small compared to those in lung and spleen (&#142;gure 4). Megaloschizonts in lung and spleen tissue measured up to 163 m m in diameter and were characterized by cytomere formation with each section packed with merozoites.</p> <p>Hapantotype. IRCAH: G46311 2 (gametocytes) from Podargus strigoides, coll. Reid, 14 October 1999, Currumbin, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia; IRCAH: G46311 3 (schizonts) from P. strigoides, coll. Lederer, 14 November 1998, Currumbin, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.</p> <p>Parahapantotype. IRCAH: G463114, G463115 and G463116 (gametoctyes) from P. strigoides, coll. Reid, 16 August 1999, 19 September 1999 and 10 October 1999; IRCAH: G46311 7 (schizonts) from P. strigoides, coll. Lederer, 14 November 1998, Currumbin, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.</p> <p>Other hosts. Probably occurs throughout the range of the Podargidae.</p> <p>Vectors. Unknown, but assumed to be simuliids.</p> <p>Etymology. Named after the genus of the type host.</p> <p>Comments. Leucocytozoon podargii is a parasite with only round morphs occurring in a small family of birds with a distribution restricted to the Australasian region. The inclusion of schizont stages is a bonus particularly as the presence of megaloschizonts occurs in the absence of second generation elongate morphs. In this respect L. podargii appears to have a life cycle similar to that of Leucocytozoon marchouxi Mathis and Leger (see Peirce et al., 1997). Nothing is currently known regarding the potential pathogenicity of L. podargii; the reason for euthanasia in this particular bird was related to causes other than the Leucocytozoon infection.</p> <p>The low prevalence of microgametocyte s in all the positive birds examined seems to be a characteristic of L. podargii infections. The earliest published record of leucocytozoids from the Podargidae was by Cleland (1915) who recognized Leucocytozoon sp. from P. strigoides from Eidsvold in southern Queensland. Later, Mackerras and Mackerras (1960) assigned leucocytozoids from the same host and locality to Leucocytozoon caprimulgi Kerandel originally described from the nightjar Caprimulgus fossii Hartlaub, a species with Afro-Tropical distribution. Their contention was that host relationships dictated conspeci&#142;city of the leucocytozoid. However, C. fossii is placed within the family Caprimulgidae (see Sibley and Monroe, 1990, 1993) while it has long been recognized that P. strigoides is a member of the Australasian-endemic bird family, Podargidae. Taking into account the established host-speci&#142;city at family level of Leucocytozoon spp. (see discussion in Bennett et al., 1991) and in the absence of any data to the contrary, we describe this species as L. podargii.</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/09754517FFD58416FE1D49C7FE8F5CA9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Adlard, R. D.;Peirce, M. A.;Lederer, R.	Adlard, R. D., Peirce, M. A., Lederer, R. (2002): New species of Leucocytozoon from the avian families Otidae, Podargidae and Threskiornithidae. Journal of Natural History 36 (11): 1261-1267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930110049962, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930110049962
09754517FFD28410FE0B4BD4FC1F591E.text	09754517FFD28410FE0B4BD4FC1F591E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Leucocytozoon ibisi Adlard & Peirce & Lederer 2002	<div><p>Leucocytozoon ibisi n. sp.</p> <p>(&#142;gures 5, 6)</p> <p>Type host. Threskiornis molucca Cuvier (white ibis).</p> <p>Type locality. Currumbin, Queensland, Australia.</p> <p>Basis of description</p> <p>Macrogametocyte. A parasite with small round morphs only, not exceeding about 13 m m in diameter (table 1), exhibiting the usual staining characteristics of the genus. Nucleus slightly ovoid occupying a central to subcentral position with a small round karyosome visible; cytoplasm granular with a few hyaline vacuoles sometimes present. Host–parasite complex indicates a maximum diameter of about 15 m m; host cell nucleus occupies a peripheral position around a quarter to onethird of the parasite circumference (&#142;gure 5).</p> <p>Microgametocyte. Similar to the macrogametocyte but more variable in shape and slightly smaller in overall dimensions (table 1); exhibiting the usual diOEerentiating characteristics of the genus. The host cell nucleus covers slightly more of the parasite circumference (&#142;gure 6). No distinctive karyosome visible in dispersed parasite nucleus. Ratio of macrogametocyte s to microgametocyte s is 3:2.</p> <p>Hapantotype. IRCAH: G46312 5 from Threskiornis molucca, coll. Lederer, 20 November 1998, Currumbin, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/09754517FFD28410FE0B4BD4FC1F591E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Adlard, R. D.;Peirce, M. A.;Lederer, R.	Adlard, R. D., Peirce, M. A., Lederer, R. (2002): New species of Leucocytozoon from the avian families Otidae, Podargidae and Threskiornithidae. Journal of Natural History 36 (11): 1261-1267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930110049962, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930110049962
09754517FFD18413FE0C4913FBB65CA9.text	09754517FFD18413FE0C4913FBB65CA9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Leucocytozoon otidis Adlard & Peirce & Lederer 2002	<div><p>Leucocytozoon otidis n. sp.</p> <p>(&#142;gures 7, 8)</p> <p>Type host. Ardeotis kori Burchell (Kori bustard).</p> <p>Type locality. Kajiado, Kenya.</p> <p>Basis of description</p> <p>Macrogametocyte. A small parasite with round morphs only, with a diameter of about 14 m m (table 1), exhibiting the usual staining characteristics. The cytoplasm is granular with the presence of numerous small hyaline vacuoles; nucleus is central to sub-central, round to oval in shape with a distinctive dark staining karyosome (&#142;gures 7, 8). The host–parasite complex has an overall length of about 16 m m and the host cell nucleus forms a cap on the periphery of the parasite covering between a quarter and a third of the circumference (&#142;gures 7, 8).</p> <p>Microgametocyte. Similar to the macrogametocyt e with the usual diOEerentiating staining characteristics. The prevalence of microgametocytes is low and the ratio to macrogametocytes is 1:25.</p> <p>Hapantotype. IRCAH: G46310 3 from Ardeotis kori, coll. Joyner, 18 March 1967, Kajiado, Kenya.</p> <p>Parahapantotypes. IRCAH: G46310 4 and G463105 from Clamydotis undulata (Jacquin), coll. Silvanose, 7 June 1999, Abu Dhabi, UAE (birds imported from Pakistan).</p> <p>Other hosts. There are records of Leucocytozoon from several species of Otidae in the IRCAH database (Bennett et al., 1982; Bishop and Bennett, 1992), but no slides were available for study. It is assumed that all records can be referred to L. otidis.</p> <p>Vectors. Unknown, but assumed to be simuliids.</p> <p>Etymology. Named after the host family.</p> <p>Comments. Leucocytozoon otidis is a relatively small round morph and is considered to be a distinct species based on assumed host-speci&#142;city at the family/subfamily level (Bennett et al., 1991). The Otidae have a wide distribution throughout Europe, Africa and Asia and it is likely that L. otidis occurs throughout this range. Bustards generally inhabit dry bushland and savannah which probably accounts for the apparent low prevalence of L. otidis as the vectors would be sparse in such areas.</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/09754517FFD18413FE0C4913FBB65CA9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Adlard, R. D.;Peirce, M. A.;Lederer, R.	Adlard, R. D., Peirce, M. A., Lederer, R. (2002): New species of Leucocytozoon from the avian families Otidae, Podargidae and Threskiornithidae. Journal of Natural History 36 (11): 1261-1267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930110049962, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930110049962
