Editing Leishmania (section)

==Classification==

Subgenus '''Leishmania''' {{small|Ross, 1903 sensu Saf'janova, 1982}}
*''[[Leishmania aethiopica]]'' {{small|Bray, Ashford & Bray, 1973}}
*''[[Leishmania amazonensi]]s'' {{small|Lainson & Shaw, 1972}} (includes ''garnhami'' {{small|Scorza et al., 1979}})
*''[[Leishmania arabica]]'' {{small|Peters, Elbihari & Evans, 1986}}
*''[[Leishmania aristidesi]]'' {{small|Lainson & Shaw, 1979}}
*''[[Leishmania donovani]]''{{small| (Laveran & Mesnil, 1903)}}
*''[[Leishmania forattinii]]''{{small| Yoshida, Cuba, Pacheco, Cupolillo, Tavares, Machado, Homen & Grimaldi, 1993}}
*''[[Leishmania gerbilli]]''{{small| Wang, Qu & Guan, 1964}}
*''[[Leishmania infantum]]'' {{small|Nicolle, 1908}} (subspecies ''chagasi'' {{small|Cunha & Chagas, 1937}})
*''[[Leishmania killicki]]'' {{small|Rioux, Lamotte & Pratlong, 1986}}
*''[[Leishmania major]]'' {{small|Yakimoff & Schokhor, 1914}}
*''[[Leishmania mexicana]]'' {{small|Biagi, 1953}}
*''[[Leishmania pifanoi]]'' {{small|Medina & Romero, 1959}}
*''[[Leishmania tropica]]'' {{small|(Wright, 1903)}}
*''[[Leishmania turanica]]'' {{small|Strelkova, Shurkhal, Kellina, Eliseev, Evans, Peters, Chapman, Le Blancq & van Eys, 1990}}
*''[[Leishmania venezeulensis]]'' {{small|Bonfante-Garrido, 1980}}
*''[[Leishmania waltoni]]'' {{small|Shaw, Pratlong & Dedet 2015}}

Subgenus '''[[Mundinia]]''' {{small|Shaw,Camargo and Teixeira 2016}}
*''[[Leishmania enriettii]]'' {{small|Muniz & Medina, 1948}}
*''[[Leishmania macropodum]]'' {{small|Barratt, Kaufer, Peters, Craig, Lawrence, Roberts, Lee, McAuliffe, Stark, Ellis, 2017}}
*''[[Leishmania martiniquensis]]'' {{small|Desbois, Pratlong, Quist and Dedet,2014}}<ref name="DesboisPratlong2014">{{cite journal|last1=Desbois|first1=Nicole|last2=Pratlong|first2=Francine|last3=Quist|first3=Danièle|last4=Dedet|first4=Jean-Pierre|title=''Leishmania (Leishmania) martiniquensis'' n. sp. (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae), description of the parasite responsible for cutaneous leishmaniasis in Martinique Island (French West Indies)|journal=Parasite|volume=21|year=2014|pages=12|issn=1776-1042|doi=10.1051/parasite/2014011| pmid = 24626346 |pmc = 3952653}} {{open access}}</ref>
*''[[Leishmania orientalis]]''{{small| Jariyapan, Daroontum, Jaiwong, Chanmol,.Intakhan, Sor-Suwan, Siriyasatien, Somboon, Bates, Bates, 2018}}

Subgenus '''[[Sauroleishmania]]''' {{small|Ranque, 1973 sensu Saf'janova, 1982}}
*''[[Leishmania adleri]]'' {{small|Heisch, 1958}}
*''[[Leishmania agamae]]'' {{small|David, 1929}}
*''[[Leishmania ceramodactyli]]'' {{small|Adler & Theodor, 1929}}
*''[[Leishmania gulikae]]'' {{small|Ovezmukhammedov & Saf'janova, 1987}}
*''[[Leishmania gymnodactyli]]'' † {{small|Khodukin & Sofiev, 1940}}
*''[[Leishmania helioscopi]]'' † {{small|Chodukin & Sofiev, 1940}} 
*''[[Leishmania hemidactyli]]'' {{small|Mackie, Gupta & Swaminath, 1923}}
*''[[Leishmania hoogstraali]]'' {{small|McMillan, 1965}}
*''[[Leishmania nicollei]]'' {{small |Chodukin & Sofieff, 1940}}
*''[[Leishmania platycephala]]'' {{small|Telford, 2009}}
*''[[Leishmania phrynocephali]]'' {{small|Chodukin & Sofieff, 1940}}
*''[[Leishmania senegalensis]]'' {{small|Ranque, 1973}}
*''[[Leishmania sofieffi]]'' ↑ {{small|Markov, Lukina & Markova, 1964}}
*''[[Leishmania tarentolae]]'' {{small|Wenyon, 1921}}
*''[[Leishmania zmeevi]]'' ↑ {{small|Andruchko & Markov 1955}}
*''[[Leishmania zuckermani]]'' {{small|Paperna, Boulard, Hering-Hagenbeck & Landau, 2001}}
{{small|↑ Species described as ''Sauroleishmania''. Their development is not like other members of the subgenus and so their taxonomic position is doubtful.}}

Subgenus '''[[Viannia]]''' {{small|Lainson & Shaw 1987}}
*''[[Leishmania braziliensis]]'' {{small|Vianna, 1911}} 
*''[[Leishmania guyanensis]]'' {{small|Floch, 1954}}
*''[[Leishmania lainsoni]]'' {{small|Silveira, Shaw, Braga & Ishikawa, 1987}}
*''[[Leishmania lindenbergi]]'' {{small|Silveira, Ishikawa, De Souza & Lainson, 2002}}
*''[[Leishmania naiffi]]'' {{small|Lainson & Shaw, 1989}}
*''[[Leishmania panamensis]]'' {{small|Lainson & Shaw, 1972}}
*''[[Leishmania peruviana]]'' {{small|Velez, 1913}}
*''[[Leishmania shawi]]'' {{small|Lainson, Braga & de Souza, 1989}}
*''[[Leishmania utingensis]]'' {{small|Braga, Lainson, Ishikawa & Shaw 2003}}

===Related genera===

The relationships between ''Leishmania'' and other genera such as ''Endotrypanum'', ''[[Novymonas]]'', ''Porcisia'', and ''Zelonia'' is presently unclear as they are closely related.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Espinosa |first1=O. A. |last2=Serrano |first2=M. G. |last3=Camargo |first3=E. P. |last4=Teixeira |first4=M. M. G. |last5=Shaw |first5=J. J. |date=2018 |title=An appraisal of the taxonomy and nomenclature of trypanosomatids presently classified as Leishmania and Endotrypanum |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27976601 |journal=Parasitology |volume=145 |issue=4 |pages=430–442 |doi=10.1017/S0031182016002092 |issn=1469-8161 |pmid=27976601|s2cid=41544524 }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Mathison |first1=Blaine A. |last2=Bradbury |first2=Richard S. |last3=Pritt |first3=Bobbi S. |date=2021 |title=Medical Parasitology Taxonomy Update, January 2018 to May 2020 |journal=Journal of Clinical Microbiology |volume=59 |issue=2 |pages=e01308–20 |doi=10.1128/JCM.01308-20 |issn=1098-660X |pmc=8111142 |pmid=33028601}}</ref> ''Endotrypanum colombiensis'', ofter known as ''Leishmania colombiensis,'' has been associated with both cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis in Venezuela.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Rodriguez-Bonfante |first1=Claudina |last2=Bonfante-Garrido |first2=Rafael |last3=Grimaldi |first3=Gabriel |last4=Momen |first4=Hooman |last5=Cupolillo |first5=Elisa |date=2003 |title=Genotypically distinct Leishmania colombiensis isolates from Venezuela cause both cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis in humans |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12809806 |journal=Infection, Genetics and Evolution: Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics in Infectious Diseases |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=119–124 |doi=10.1016/s1567-1348(03)00012-1 |issn=1567-1348 |pmid=12809806}}</ref>

Genus '''Endotrypanum'''
*''Endotrypanum colombiensis'' {{small|Kreutzer, Corredor, Grimaldi, Grogl, Rowton, Young, Morales, McMahon-Pratt, Guzman & Tesh, 1991}}
*''Endotrypanum equatorensis'' {{small|Grimaldi, Kreutzer, Hashiguchi, Gomet, Mimory & Tesh, 1992}}
*''Endotrypanum herreri'' {{small|Zeledon, Ponce & Murillo, 1979}}
*''Endotrypanum monterogeii'' {{small|Shaw, 1969}}
*''Endotrypanum schaudinni'' {{small|Mesnil and Brimont, 1908}}

Genus '''Novymonas''' {{small|Kostygov and Yurchenko 2016}} 
*''Novymonas esmeraldas'' {{small|Votýpka, Kostygov, Maslov and Lukeš,  2016}}

Genus '''Porcisia''' {{small|Shaw, Camargo and Teixeira, 2016}}
*''Porcisia deanei'' {{small|Lainson & Shaw, 1977}}
*''Porcisia hertigi'' {{small|Herrer, 1971}}

Genus '''Zelonia''' {{small|Shaw, Camargo and Teixeira, 2016}}
*''Zelonia australiensis'' {{small|Barratt, Kaufer, Peters, Craig, Lawrence, Roberts, Lee, McAuliffe, Stark, Ellis, 2017}}
*''Zelonia costaricensis'' {{small|Yurchenko, Lukes, Jirku, Zeledon, Maslov, 2006}}