| haemosporidian infections in captive exotic glossy starling lamprotornis chalybaeus in hong kong. | a greater blue-eared glossy starling lamprotornis chalybaeus ehrenburg from a large flight aviary in hong kong was found on post mortem to be infected with plasmodium octamerium manwell, 1968, plasmodium cf. relictum (grassi et feletti, 1891) and haemoproteus cf. pastoris mello, 1935. descriptions of their morphology are provided as none of the examined parasites fully concord with their type (or neotype) material descriptions. plasmodium octamerium has been recorded in avian hosts from geograph ... | 2008 | 18578162 |