Lainson R, Naiff R D
Department of Parasitology, Instituto Evandro Chagas, Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Proc Biol Sci. 1998 Jun 7;265(1400):941-9. doi: 10.1098/rspb.1998.0382.
It is the general opinion that the haemoproteid blood parasites of chelonians belong to the genus Haemoproteus. Different specific names have long been assigned to this parasite in birds, but some past authorities have accepted only a single species, H. metchnikovi, for all those haemoproteids recorded in a wide range of chelonian genera throughout the world. In the present study, a comparison of one such organism in the tortoise Geochelone denticulata with another in the river turtle Peltocephalus dumerilianus, from Amazonian Brazil, has revealed clear morphological differences. These distinguish the parasites from each other, H. metchnikovi and the other named species of chelonian Haemoproteus for which adequate descriptions are available. We have assigned to them the names Haemoproteus geochelonis n.sp. and Haemoproteus peltocephali n.sp.
一般认为，龟类的血变形虫血液寄生虫属于血变形虫属。长期以来，鸟类中的这种寄生虫被赋予了不同的特定名称，但过去一些权威人士只接受了一个物种，即梅氏血变形虫，用于全世界广泛龟类属中记录的所有这些血变形虫。在本研究中，对来自巴西亚马逊地区的齿缘陆龟中的一种此类生物体与杜氏河龟中的另一种进行比较，发现了明显的形态差异。这些差异将这些寄生虫相互区分开来，包括梅氏血变形虫以及其他有充分描述的龟类血变形虫的命名物种。我们已将它们分别命名为地龟血变形虫新种和杜氏河龟血变形虫新种。
