| two new species of hepatozoon (apicomplexa: hepatozoidae) parasitising species of philothamnus (ophidia: colubridae) from south africa. | to date, only a few species of hepatozoon miller, 1908 have been described from amphibians and reptiles of south africa, including two species from anuran hosts, three from saurians, one from chelonians, and two from ophidians. hepatozoon bitis (fantham, 1925) and hepatozoon refringens (sambon et seligmann, 1907), parasitising bitis arientans (merrem) and pseudoaspis cana (linnaeus), respectively, were described in the early 1900s and since then there have been no further species of hepatozoon d ... | 2018 | 29657154 |