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Haemoproteus crumenium

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Haemoproteus crumenium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Alveolata
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Class: Aconoidasida
Order: Chromatorida
Family: Haemoproteidae
Genus: Haemoproteus
Species:
H. crumenium
Binomial name
Haemoproteus crumenium
(Hirst, 1905)

Haemoproteus crumenium is a haemoproteid parasite first described in 1905. Birds of the family Ciconiidae serve as the host. From an early stage of development it tends to take up a lateral position within infected cells. While it usually has an irregular outline while developing, by maturity it has clearly rounded ends. Even fully-grown it almost never takes up more than two-thirds of the cell it hosts in.[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ Peirce, M. A.; Cooper, J. E. (1977). "Haematozoa of East African birds: IV. Redescription of Haemoproteus crumenium, a parasite of the marabou stork". African Journal of Ecology. 15 (2): 169–172. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2028.1977.tb00393.x.
  2. ^ Zabransky, C. J.; Webb, S. L.; Fedynich, A. M.; Bryan Jr, A. L. (2008). "Blood parasites in wood storks (Mycteria americana) from the southeastern United States". The Journal of Parasitology. 94 (5): 1178–9. doi:10.1645/GE-1480.1. PMID 18576809. S2CID 207249942.