Table 6 Key to the Haemoproteus species of Caprimulgiformes birds

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One species has been described. The parasite with pleomorphic gametocytes (Fig. 7a–c). Fully grown gametocytes usually slightly enclose the nuclei of infected erythrocytes with their ends and markedly displace the nuclei laterally, but do not encircle them completely (Fig. 7b). However, the gametocytes sometimes also completely encircle the nuclei of erythrocytes and occupy all available cytoplasmic space in the host cells (Fig. 7c). Advanced growing gametocytes often do not adhere to nuclei of erythrocytes (Fig. 7a). The average number of pigment granules is about 20 in fully grown gametocytes

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H. caprimulgi (Fig. 7a–c) [3, 66]