Haemoproteus Cacatuidae Family Psittacidae Order Strigiformes Family Strigidae "Haemoproteus balazuci" Dias 1953 is a junior synonym of "Haemoproteus testudinalis" "Haemoproteus gymnorhidis" de Mello 1936, "Haemoproteus granulosum" Rey Vila 1945, "Haemoproteus danilewskyi var. urbanensis" Sachs 1953 and "Haemoproteus zasukhini" Burtikashvili 1973 are considered to be synonyms of "Haemoproteus passeris" Kruse 1890. "Haemoproteus rouxi" Novy and MacNeal 1904 is a "nomen nudum". Haemoproteus Haemoproteus is a genus of alveolates that are parasitic in birds, reptiles and amphibians. Its name is derived from Greek: "Haima", "blood", and "Proteus", a sea god who had the power of assuming different shapes. The name "Haemoproteus" was first
The Origin of Birds exquisite detail the fossil remains of several extinct birds, including "Hesperornis", "Ichthyornis", "Archaeopteryx", and ""Archaeornis"", the name used commonly at the time for the Berlin specimen, which was then thought to represent a separate genus. Throughout this section are many finely detailed and labeled renderings of different parts of the skeletal anatomy of these birds, as well as other groups of extinct reptiles and some modern birds. Heilmann's attention to detail in his artwork is inspired at least in part by his dissatisfaction with anatomical renderings of these animals in scholarly works of the time, which he deemed as "unsatisfactory"