A New Babesia from the Indian Bandicoot

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Abstract
Blood films from the Indian bandicoot, Bandicota indica nemorivaga Hodgson, of Formosa (Taiwan) showed an apparently new species of babesia for which the name Babesia bandicootia is proposed. This parasite is characterized by the production of rings often resembling those of malaria, a maximum of four merozoites per segmenting form, and highly ameboid trophozoites (or possibly sexual forms). A babesia found in another rodent of the same area, Rattus coxinga coxinga (Swinhoe),known as the "spinous country rat" was morphologically some-what different and presumably of another (though undetermined) species.

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