Hepatozoon Miller, 1908 parasites in the Colubridae snakes Clelia clelia (Daudin, 1803) and Drymarchon corais (Boie, 1827) from the Eastern Amazonia

Hepatozoon Miller, 1908 parasites in the Colubridae snakes Clelia clelia (Daudin, 1803) and Drymarchon corais (Boie, 1827) from the Eastern Amazonia

Abstract Based on the genetic, morphological, and morphometric data of blood gamonts, we identified Hepatozoon parasites in colubrid snakes sampled in the Eastern Amazon region. Hepatozoon trigeminum was detected in the mussurana snake Clelia clelia and exhibited wide and elongated gamonts (mean dim...

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Main Authors: AMANDA MARIA PICELLI, MARIA REGINA L. SILVA, JAMILLE KARINA C. CORREA, GLEICIERLE R. PAIVA, FABIANE R. PAULA, EMIL JOSÉ HERNÁNDEZ-RUZ, ELCIOMAR A. OLIVEIRA, LÚCIO ANDRÉ VIANA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2023-05-01
Series:Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Subjects:
Apicomplexa
colubrid snakes
hemoparasites
integrative taxonomy
18S rRNA
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