Table 3.
Genera of haemogregarine parasites.
| Assemblage | Genus | No. spp. |
Site of development in vertebrate |
Vertebrate hosts | Invertebrate vectors | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| meronts | gamonts | |||||
| F: Haemogregarinidae | Cyrilia | 4 | erythrocytes | erythrocytes | fish | leeches |
| F: Haemogregarinidae | Desseria | 40 | erythrocytes | erythrocytes | fish | leeches |
| F: Haemogregarinidae | Haemogregarina | 46 | erythrocytes | erythrocytes | turtles | leeches |
| F: Hepatozoidae | Hepatozoon | 300 | viscera | erythrocytes, leucocytes | mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fish | leeches, arthropods |
| F: Karyolysidae | Hemolivia | 4 | RE cells | erythrocytes | lizards, tortoises, toads | ticks |
| F: Karyolysidae | Karyolysus | 5 | viscera ± rbc | erythrocytes | lizards | mites |
| F: Dactylosomatidae | Dactylosoma | 10 | erythrocytes | erythrocytes | chameleons, frogs, teleosts | leeches |
| F: Dactylosomatidae | Babesiosoma | 7 | erythrocytes | erythrocytes | frogs, fish | leeches |