Haemoproteidae

Haemoproteidae
Haemoproteus ilanpapernai
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Sar
Clade:	Alveolata
Phylum:	Apicomplexa
Class:	Aconoidasida
Order:	Chromatorida
Suborder:	Laveraniina
Family:	Haemoproteidae
Genera
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The Haemoproteidae are a family of parasitic alveolates in the phylum Apicomplexa. ^[1]

The species in this family produce pigment and do not have an asexual cycle in the blood.

Taxonomy

The genera in this family are:

• Genus Johnsprentia Landau, Chavatte & Beveridge, 2012 ^[2]
• Genus Haemocystidium Castellani and Willey, 1904, emend. Telford, 1996
• Genus Haemoproteus Kruse, 1890 ^{[3] [4]}
  • Subgenus ParahaemoproteusBennett et al., 1965
  • Subgenus Haemoproteus
• Genus Paleohaemoproteus Poinar and Telford, 2005
• Genus Sprattiella Landau et al., 2012 ^[5]

References

1. Euzéby J (1988) Comparative Medical Protozoology, Vol. 3: Apicomplexa, 2: Haemosporidioses, Part 1: Plasmodiids, Haemoproteids, Piroplasms (general characters
2. Landau I., Chavatte J.M. & Beveridge I. Johnsprentia copemani gen. nov., sp. nov. (Haemoproteidae), a parasite of the flying-fox, Pteropus alecto (Pteropodidae), from Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 2012, 56, 61–66.
3. Karadjian, G.; Puech, MP.; Duval, L.; Chavatte, JM.; Snounou, G.; Landau, I. (2013). "Haemoproteus syrnii in Strix aluco from France: morphology, stages of sporogony in a hippoboscid fly, molecular characterization and discussion on the identification of Haemoproteus species". Parasite. 20: 32. doi:10.1051/parasite/2013031. PMC   3771403 . PMID   24029169.
4. Karadjian, G.; Martinsen, E.; Duval, L.; Chavatte, JM.; Landau, I. (2014). "Haemoproteus ilanpapernai n. sp. (Apicomplexa, Haemoproteidae) in Strix seloputo from Singapore: morphological description and reassignment of molecular data". Parasite. 21: 17. doi:10.1051/parasite/2014018. PMC   3996868 . PMID   24759652.
5. Landau, I.; Chavatte, J.M.; Karadjian, G.; Chabaud, A.; Beveridge, I. (2012). "The haemosporidian parasites of bats with description of Sprattiella alecto gen. nov., sp. nov". Parasite. 19 (2): 137–146. doi:10.1051/parasite/2012192137. ISSN   1252-607X. PMC   3671437 . PMID   22550624.