Haemoproteus nettionis Johnson & Cleland,1909

Paperna, Ilan, Keong, Malcolm Soh Chu & May, Charlotte Yap Aye, 2008, Haemosporozoan Parasites Found In Birds In Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sarawak And Java, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56 (2), pp. 211-243 : 239

Haemoproteus nettionis Johnson & Cleland,1909 .

Locality. – Singapore: Jurong BirdPark, 1998.

Type host. – Anas castanea (Eyton) (New South Wales, Australia). Found in one duck. The level of parasitaemia was approximately 6%, with counts containing 20% trophozoites, 20% juvenile macrogametocytes, 15% microgametocytes and 50% macrogametocytes (the micro-macrogametocyte ratio is 1:3–23% microgametocytes) .

Remarks. – A cosmopolitan species of ducks; another 13 ducks of diverse exotic species in the park, were negative to any blood parasites.