Morphometric and morphological characterization of Trypanosoma sp. (Kinetoplastea: Trypanosomatidae) hemoparasite of Crested Eagle, Morphnus guianensis in the Brazilian Amazon.

Morphnus guianensis is a species belonging to the Accipitridae family classified as almost threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Trypanosomes are flagellated protozoa that carry out their life cycle in the circulatory system of vertebrate hosts and within the digestive tract of invertebrate hosts. This study recorded Trypanosoma sp. parasitizing M. guianensis in the Brazilian Amazon, providing data related to the morphology and morphometry of the trypomastigote forms of peripheral blood of this bird. The mean values of the measured morphological regions were used to compare morphometric similarity with morphotypes described for Trypanosoma sp. through the Bray-Curtis method and, after statistical analysis, the dendrogram was generated from the morphological similarities with a similarity greater than 95% with T. paddae described for different hosts in different geographical regions.