Ixodes eichhorni Nuttall, 1916 = Ixodes mindanensis Kohls, 1950

Another obscure tick, Ixodes eichhorni has been only documented a few times. The Micronesian record is from 1945, from a chicken on Peleliu, Palau was classified by Kohls as I. mindanensis, which previous to that find, had only been reported on an island thrush ( Turdus poliocephalus) in Mindanao, Philippines. Thereafter, it was determined to be a synonym of I. eichhorni (Petney & Keirans 1994) . That species had been collected initially from a human in New Guinea and an unspecified kingfisher in the Admiralty Islands (Nuttall 1916).