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Haemoproteus homovelans

Haemoproteus homovelans
Scientific classification
(unranked): SAR
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Class: Aconoidasida
Order: Haemospororida
Family: Haemoproteidae
Genus: Haemoproteus
Species: H. homovelans
Binomial name
Haemoproteus (Parahaemoproteus) homovelans
Dimitrov et al., 2014

Haemoproteus (Parahaemoproteus) homovelans is a parasite first found in the Grey-faced Woodpecker, Picus canus, in Bulgaria. Haemoproteus homovelans has circumnuclear that lack volutin granules. The species is similar to Haemoproteus velans, yet the latter's gametocytes are overfilled with volutin.


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