Vol. 2 No. 1 (2026): Plasmodium Biology: Scientific Classification

Morphological characterization and genetic techniques allow the description of the phylogenetic diversity of organisms.
The Plasmodium genus belongs to the Plasmodiidae family, Haemospororida order, Aconoidasida class, Apicomplexa
phylum, Alveolata superphylum, Halvaria infrakingdom, Harosa subkingdom, Chromista kingdom, and
Eukaryote domain (Figure 1).