Haemoproteidae

The Haemoproteidae are a family of parasitic alveolates in the phylum Apicomplexa.^[1]

The species in this family produce pigment and do not have an asexual cycle in the blood.

Taxonomy

The genera in this family are:

Genus Johnsprentia Landau, Chavatte & Beveridge, 2012 ^[2]
Genus Haemocystidium Castellani and Willey, 1904, emend. Telford, 1996
Genus Haemoproteus Kruse, 1890 ^[3]^[4]
- Subgenus Parahaemoproteus Bennett et al., 1965
- Subgenus Haemoproteus
Genus Paleohaemoproteus Poinar and Telford, 2005
Genus Sprattiella Landau et al., 2012 ^[5]

^ Euzéby J (1988) Comparative Medical Protozoology, Vol. 3: Apicomplexa, 2: Haemosporidioses, Part 1: Plasmodiids, Haemoproteids, Piroplasms (general characters
^ Landau I., Chavatte J.M. & Beveridge I. Johnsprentia copemani gen. nov., sp. nov. (Haemoproteidae), a parasite of the flying-fox, Pteropus alecto (Pteropodidae), from Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 2012, 56, 61–66.
^ Karadjian, G.; Puech, MP.; Duval, L.; Chavatte, JM.; Snounou, G.; Landau, I. (2013). "Haemoproteus syrnii in Strix aluco from France: morphology, stages of sporogony in a hippoboscid fly, molecular characterization and discussion on the identification of Haemoproteus species". Parasite. 20: 32. doi:10.1051/parasite/2013031. PMC 3771403. PMID 24029169.
^ Karadjian, G.; Martinsen, E.; Duval, L.; Chavatte, JM.; Landau, I. (2014). "Haemoproteus ilanpapernai n. sp. (Apicomplexa, Haemoproteidae) in Strix seloputo from Singapore: morphological description and reassignment of molecular data". Parasite. 21: 17. doi:10.1051/parasite/2014018. PMC 3996868. PMID 24759652.
^ Landau, I.; Chavatte, J.M.; Karadjian, G.; Chabaud, A.; Beveridge, I. (2012). "The haemosporidian parasites of bats with description of Sprattiella alecto gen. nov., sp. nov". Parasite. 19 (2): 137–146. doi:10.1051/parasite/2012192137. ISSN 1252-607X. PMC 3671437. PMID 22550624.

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