Table 7 Key to the Haemoproteus species of Cariamiformes birds

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One species has been described. Advanced growing gametocytes are closely appressed to the envelop of erythrocytes, but often do not touch nuclei of the erythrocytes (Fig. 8b). Form of fully grown gametocytes is close to circumnuclear (Fig. 8a). Fully grown gametocytes cause rounding of the erythrocyte nuclei, which become roundish or even circular in shape (Fig. 8a, b). The average number of pigment granules in fully grown macrogametocytes is greater than in microgametocytes

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H. pulcher (Fig. 8a, b) [67]