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Fig. 19 | Malaria Journal

Fig. 19

From: Keys to the avian Haemoproteus parasites (Haemosporida, Haemoproteidae)

Fig. 19

Morphological features of gametocytes, which are used for identification of Haemoproteus species parasitizing Musophagiformes birds. Macrogametocytes (a-c) of Haemoproteus montezi (a, b) and H. minchini (c). Note that both ends of advanced H. montezi gametocytes usually are more or less narrowed in comparison to the widths of the gametocytes (b), but this is not a case in H. minchini gametocytes, which both ends usually are approximately similarly rounded (c). Images a, b are from the type material, which is fading, resulting in pale staining and the poorly recognizable pigment granules and nuclei, however the overall form of the gametocytes is readily visible. Long simple arrows—host cell nuclei. Short simple arrows—parasite nucleus. Simple arrowheads—pigment granules. Triangle wide arrowheads—volutin granules. Other explanations are given in the text

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