Table 19 Key to the Haemoproteus species of Otidiformes birds

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One species has been described. Growing gametocytes are closely appressed to the erythrocyte envelope but usually do not touch the erythrocyte nuclei, and as a result, a more or less evident unfilled space (a ‘cleft’) is present between the gametocytes and the erythrocyte nuclei (Fig. 20a). Fully grown gametocytes are closely appressed both to the nuclei and envelope of erythrocytes; they completely encircle the nuclei and occupy all available cytoplasmic space in the erythrocytes (Fig. 20b). The average number of pigment granules is about 17 in macrogametocytes

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H. telfordi (Fig. 20a, b) [3, 113]