“…The other type of gametocyte were robust, causing deformations in erythrocytes and displacement of cell nuclei, with nuclei of the parasite delimited; the body length, width, and area of the parasite were, respectively, 17.9 ± 1.3 µm, 5.4 ± 0.8 µm, and 39.1 ± 2.9 µm 2 and the nuclei length, width, and area of the parasite were, respectively, 8.25 ± 1.30 µm, 3.59 ± 0.8 µm, and 13.97 ± 1.42 µm 2 (Figure 1). The same morphologies of gametocytes were observed by Soares et al (2014) and Picelli et al (2015) from Brazilian P. unifilis and P. expansa turtles, respectively. The authors nominated the small gametocytes as microgametocytes and the robust gametocytes as macrogametocytes.…”