| blood parasites of some waterfowl from victoria, australia. | a total of 316 anatids (5 species) from serendip wildlife research station, lara, victoria, were examined for blood parasites. twenty-two of the ducks (all five species) harbored haemoproteus nettionis and one also harbored plasmodium relictum. none of 12 dusky moorhens (gallinula tenebrosa) were infected. there was no significant difference in the prevalence of h. nettionis between species or age groups of ducks. no evidence of infection with leucocytozoon, trypanosoma or microfilaria was obtai ... | 1977 | 405511 |
| morphological and molecular characterization of eimeria paludosa coccidian parasite (apicomplexa:eimeriidae) in a dusky moorhen (gallinula tenebrosa, gould, 1846) in australia. | an eimeria species is described from a dusky moorhen (gallinula tenebrosa). sporulated oocysts (n = 40) are ovoid, with a pitted single-layered oocyst wall in young oocysts and a relatively smooth wall in the mature oocysts. oocyst wall was 1.0 µm thick, oocysts measured 17.3 × 13.3 (16.3-17.9 × 12.7-13.9) µm, oocyst length/width (l/w) ratio, 1.3. oocyst residuum was absent. a large polar granule was always observed in the centre of the micropyle and many small polar granules were observed when ... | 2014 | 25448356 |