Polyplax serrata (Burmeister)

Reeves, Will K., Durden, Lance A., Ritzi, Christopher M., Beckham, Katy R., Super, Paul E & Oconnor, Barry M., 2007, Ectoparasites and other ectosymbiotic arthropods of vertebrates in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA, Zootaxa 1392, pp. 31-68 : 34-35

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.273680
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6243885
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E5278780-FFEE-FFCD-FF3B-5BEBFAE4FED2
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Polyplax serrata (Burmeister)
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Polyplax serrata (Burmeister) —house mouse louse

Ex Mus musculus (house mouse): 1N, TN, Blount Co., Elkmont, 6 Jul. 1937, R.D.V.

The house mouse louse has a cosmopolitan distribution as an ectoparasite of M. musculus . Polyplax serrata is a mechanical vector for the bacterium, Eperythrozoon coccoides ( Berkenkamp & Wescott 1988) .

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No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Phthiraptera
Family	Polyplacidae
Genus	Polyplax

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