Hemoparasites of the Reptilia: Color Atlas and Text 1st Edition

Your Comprehensive Guide to Reptile Hemoparasites

This book is a comprehensive compilation of information on how to differentiate between the myriad species of reptile hemoparasites. A distillation of knowledge from a world-renowned expert, this book provides the information needed to identify reptile hemoparasites and determine whether they are of importance.

Key Features

• Comprehensive Diagnoses: The atlas provides diagnoses for 262 species of plasmodiids, hemogregarines, hemococcidians, trypanosomes, and leishmanias, including descriptions of eight new species or new taxonomic designations.
• Extensive Visuals: Each genus and many species are represented among the 166 taxa illustrated in color. The book also includes an illustrated key showing diagnostic characters and photomicrographs from a personal collection, making identifying species quicker and easier.
• Species Accounts: Species accounts contain host and geographic distribution, prevalence, life cycles and vectors, effects upon the host, and ecology of the host-parasite relationship.
• Expert Authorship: The knowledge is drawn from 45 years of experience and a personal collection considered the world’s most complete.
• Broad Coverage: It also discusses lesser-known groups, such as piroplasms, rickettsiae, chlamydia, and erythrocytic viruses.