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Raimondo Feletti (1851-1927) was an Italian physician and zoologist.Feletti worked at a clinic in Catania where a street is named for him Via Raimondo Feletti.With Giovanni Batista Grassi he published several works on malarial parasites in birds.They described and introduced the names Haemamoeba vivax (1890) and H. malariae (1889) for two of the malaria parasites soon revising the genus to Plasmodium. In 1889 Grassi and Feletti as an honor to Laveran proposed the genus name Laverania .