Ixodes nitens (lat.) - a species of blood-sucking ticks of the genus Ixodes from the family Ixodidae . Perhaps the extinct endemic of Christmas Island .
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Description
Parasitize on mammals from the order of rodents ; among specific hosts, the species of rats Rattus macleari is known). The species was first described in 1904 by the French zoologist Louis Georges Neumann (Louis Georges Neumann, 1846-1930) [1] [2] [3] [4] . Mites of Ixodes nitens are considered as an extinct species, as its host was no longer found. The last time the rat Rattus macleari was found more than 100 years ago (in 1903) [5] .
Distribution
Christmas Island (Indian Ocean, near Indonesia) [1] .
See also
- Ixodes schillingsi
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Kolonin G.V. World distribution of ixodid ticks. Genus Ixodes (Acari: Ixodidae) / Ed. Corr. USSR Academy of Medical Sciences G.P. Somov . - Moscow: Nauka, 1981. - 116 p. - 1700 copies.
- ↑ Horak Ivan G., Camicas Jean-Louis, Keirans James E. The Ixodidae, Amblyommidae and Nuttalliellidae (Acari: Ixodida): a world list of valid tick names (Eng.) // Experimental and Applied Acarology: Journal. - Springer, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. - Vol. 28. - P. 27-54. - ISSN 0168-8162 .
- ↑ Guglielmone Alberto A. et al. The Argasidae, Ixodidae and Nuttalliellidae (Acari: Ixodida) of the world: a list of valid species names (English) // Zootaxa : Journal. - Auckland , New Zealand : Magnolia Press. - Vol. 2528. - P. 1-28. - ISSN 1175-5326 .
- ↑ Neumann, LG 1901: "Révision de la famille des Ixodidés (4e mémoire)." Mémoires De La Société Zoologique De France, 14: 249-372.
- ↑ Andrei Daniel Mihalca, Călin Mircea Gherman and Vasile Cozma. 2011. Coendangered hard-ticks: threatened or threatening? - Parasites & Vectors (BioMed Central Ltd.) 2011, 4:71 doi: 10.1186 / 1756-3305-4-71
Literature
- Alberto A. Guglielmone, Richard G. Robbins, Dmitry A. Apanaskevich, Trevor N. Petney, Agustín Estrada-Peña, Ivan G. Horak. The Hard Ticks of the World: (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) . - New York, London: Springer Science & Business Media, 2013 .-- 751 p. - ISBN 978-94-007-7496-4 .
- Kolonin G.V. World distribution of ixodid ticks. Genus Ixodes (Acari: Ixodidae) / Ed. Corr. USSR Academy of Medical Sciences G.P. Somov . - Moscow: Nauka, 1981. - 116 p. - 1700 copies.
- Filippova N.A. Ixodic ticks. Subfamilies Ixodinae // Fauna of the USSR. Arachnids. - L .: Nauka , 1977 .-- T. 4, no. 4. - 396 s. - (New Series No. 114).
Links
- Ixodes Information on Discover Life. (English) (Retrieved June 23, 2015)