Amblyomma geochelone Durden, Keirans & Smith, 2002

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, Zootaxa 5251 (1), pp. 1-274 : 48

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3326BF76-A2FB-4244-BA4C-D0AF81F55637
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7736726
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03966A56-0F44-C744-BABF-8BA5B132FED1
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Amblyomma geochelone Durden, Keirans & Smith, 2002
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47. Amblyomma geochelone Durden, Keirans & Smith, 2002 View in CoL .

Afrotropical: 1) Madagascar ( Durden et al. 2002).

Amblyomma geochelone may be a synonym of Amblyomma chabaudi . Both species feed on tortoises in Madagascar, are morphologically similar, and share a gene sequence that is also found in Amblyomma loculosum , a parasite of marine birds, an unexpected finding ( Kushimo 2013, Guglielmone et al. 2020).