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In 1904 Drs. Castellani and Willey (3) described a hæmogregarine from the blood of the common lake-tortoise of Ceylon, Nicoria trijuga. They named the parasite Hæmogregarina nicoriæ after its host. Shortly afterwards these authors gave a somewhat fuller account of their observations in the’ Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science’ (4).
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