Haemoproteus crumenium

Haemoproteus crumenium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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

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. Bibcode:1977AfJEc..15..169P. 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.