Borings and bite marks on fossil turtle carapaces and plastra from the Miocene Moghra
Formation, northern Egypt, are herein described. All fossil turtle material from Moghra …

The carapace and plastron bones of fossil turtles are often characterized by bone
modification features such as pits, grooves, and holes. The significance, origin, and …

Placobdella is a genus of blood-feeding leeches in the family Glossiphoniidae. Historically,
species of Placobdella have posed difficulty for systematists owing to a lack of informative …

The majority of Haemogregarina species have been based on the morphology of their
erythrocytic stages and supposed strict host specificity. The quantity of species with a limited …

Endemic Sicilian pond turtles Emys trinacris Fritz, Fattizzo, Guicking, Tripepi, Pennisi, Lenk,
Joger et Wink were examined for the presence of haemogregarine parasites. The presence …

Borings in fossil turtle shells collected from the lowermost beds of the early Eocene
Cathedral Bluffs Tongue of the Wasatch Formation in the northwestern part of the Green …

The uniform morphology of the developmental stages of Haemogregarina species and the
insufficient information supplied by the simplistic descriptions of previous authors …

The bloodfeeding leech genus Placobdella is dominated by North American diversity, with
only a single nominal species known from Central America and one from the Palearctic …

Blood smears stained with Diff Quick are the initial tool for cytological diagnosis of
Haemogregarina spp. However, the development of sensitive and specific molecular …

Haemogregarines (Apicomplexa: Adeleorina) are the most common and widespread
reptilian blood parasites. Haemogregarina stepanowi was the first haemogregarine …