Leishmania
See also: leishmania and leishmânia
Translingual
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Promastigotes of Leishmania tropica
Etymology
Named after Scottish pathologist William Boog Leishman + -ia (taxonomic suffix).
Proper noun
Leishmania f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Trypanosomatidae – parasitic protozoans, a trypanosome, transmitted by sandflies and which cause disease in humans and other vertebrates.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Protozoa - kingdom; Eozoa - subkingdom; Euglenozoa - infrakingdom; Euglenozoa - phylum; Kinetoplastea - class; Trypanosomatida - order; Trypanosomatidae - family; Leishmaniinae - subfamily
Hyponyms
- (genus): Leishmania, Mundinia, Viannia - subgenera; Leishmania aethiopica, Leishmania braziliensis, Leishmania donovani, Leishmania major, Leishmania mexicana, Leishmania peruviana, Leishmania tropica - selected species
Descendants
- → English: leishmania
References
Leishmania on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Leishmania on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Leishmania on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Leishmania at Encyclopedia of Life
- Leishmania at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Leishmania available from http://www.irmng.org at VLIZ.03 Rees, T. (compiler) (2017). The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
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