Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Plasmodium coggeshalli


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The result was keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Icebob99 (talk) 03:34, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

Plasmodium coggeshalli

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Taxonomic classification based on a species redescription that has not been recognized by the scientific community Icebob99 (talk) 19:48, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
 * More info: this article describes a very obscure species of Plasmodium. Besides the description paper, found as a source in the article, the few mentions of this species lie in lists of species under the Plasmodium genus. These lists also have the name of the species before the redescription (Plasmodium lophurae, which I created), thus they don't actually show that the species was renamed. See this list or this list and do a ctrl+F for both coggeshalli and lophurae. Icebob99 (talk) 19:54, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organisms-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 03:31, 16 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep Nomination is rather confused; the species wasn't renamed. I can't access full text, but the abstract of the paper where P. coggeshalli was described is available here. The abstract reads (in part, translated from French via Google): "A new examination of the blood smears of Lophura, Chickens and Turkeys .... shows the presence of three distinct species that had previously been designated as Plasmodium lophurae Coggeshall, 1938. The work includes the redescription of P. lophurae and the description of P. coggeshalli n.sp. And P. papernai n.sp." P. lophurae was "redescribed" to conform to a narrower circumscription with two new species recognized. There's nothing in there about "renaming" or any statement of synonymy. Plantdrew (talk) 17:49, 16 December 2016 (UTC)


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