Species include " Hepatozoon muris " and " Hepatozoon canis ", which typically infects mice and dogs, respectively, and " Hepatozoon atticorae ", which is found in birds.
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The genus " Hepatozoon " was created by Miller in 1908 for a parasite of the white rat ( " Rattus norvegicus " ) that underwent merogony in the liver and sporogony in the mite " Laelap echidinus ".
