Ixodes nairobiensis Nuttall, 1916
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C21A719F-9A6B-4227-8386-1AFA22620614 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4576490 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C04787D4-FFD9-FFF3-FF07-F8A36767CA06 |
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Plazi |
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Ixodes nairobiensis Nuttall, 1916 |
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156. Ixodes nairobiensis Nuttall, 1916 View in CoL .
An Afrotropical species whose females and the undescribed nymph have been found on Soricomorpha : Soricidae ; females alone have been collected from Artiodactyla : Bovidae and Suidae , Carnivora : Canidae , Herpestidae and Viverridae , and Rodentia : Muridae . There are no records of Ixodes nairobiensis causing human parasitism.
M: unknown
F: Nuttall (1916)
N: undescribed; see note below
L: unknown
Redescriptions
F: Hoogstraal (1956a), Arthur (1959, 1965), Elbl and Anastos (1966b), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)
Note: the larva and nymph of Ixodes nairobiensis are listed as described in Camicas et al. (1998), but there are no formal descriptions of those stages.
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