Haematozoans from deep water fishes trawled off the Cape Verde Islands and over the Porcupine Seabight, with a revision of species within the genus Desseria (Adeleorina: Haemogregarinidae)

• Published in: Folia Parasitologica
• Main Authors: Davies, Angela J., Hosein, Shazia, Merrett, Nigel R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: deep sea haematozoans; haemogregarines; Desseria; Haemogregarina; trypanosomes; Trypanosoma; Haemohormidium; Hector; Porcupine Seabight; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://kramerius.lib.cas.cz/view/uuid:03ed195b-d696-4c64-9c15-157d1dab8f68; https://doi.org/10.14411/fp.2012.001

Archived blood smears from 32 of 113 fishes in 18 families and 12 orders, trawled from deep North Atlantic waters off the Cape Verde Islands in 1999 and over the Porcupine Seabight in 2001 were found to harbour haematozoans. These included four species of haemogregarines (Adeleorina, Haemogregarinid...