hepatozoon cevapii hepatozoon cevapii hepatozoon cevapii is a species of alveolates protists known to infect snake species such as crotalus durissus terrificus (rattlesnake). hepatozoon cevapii scientific classification domain: eukaryota clade: diaphoretickes clade: sar clade: alveolata phylum: apicomplexa class: conoidasida order: eucoccidiorida family: hepatozoidae genus: hepatozoon species: h. cevapii binomial name hepatozoon cevapiio’dwyer et al., 2013