Checklist of New Zealand ticks (Acari: Ixodidae, Argasidae)
Author
Heath, Allen C. G.
AgResearch, National Centre for Biosecurity and Infectious Disease, Wallaceville, P. O. Box 40063, Upper Hutt, New Zealand, 5140
allen.heath@agresearch.co.nz
Author
Palma, Ricardo L.
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
ricardop@tepapa.govt.nz
Author
Cane, Rachel P.
Mosquito Consulting Services (NZ), P. O. Box 69 - 198, Lincoln 7640, New Zealand
rachel.cane@mcspty.com
Author
Hardwick, Scott
Biosecurity Group, AgResearch, Private Bag 4749, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
scott.hardwick@agresearch.co.nz
text
Zootaxa
2011
2011-08-15
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55
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journal article
47035
10.5281/zenodo.203775
243330e0-1613-42ec-a6dd-60c80c56a438
1175-5326
203775
Carios capensis
(
Neumann, 1901
)
Host(s)
Seabirds:
Pterodroma neglecta
,
Pterodroma nigripennis
,
Puffinus assimilis
,
Phaethon rubricauda
,
Morus serrator
,
Stictocarbo punctatus punctatus
,
Larus novaehollandiae scopulinus
,
Anous stolidus pileatus
,
Onychoprion fuscatus serratus
.
Land bird:
Porzana tabuensis tabuensis
.
Distribution
World: Widespread on islands of the South Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, and occasionally on the mainland between 40ºN and 45ºS. Extralimital records in the Northern Hemisphere have been considered doubtful.
New Zealand
: Somes
Island
(Wellington Harbour), Cape Kidnappers, Raglan, West Coast, Banks Peninsula.
References:
Neumann (1901)
;
Dumbleton (1958
,
1961
);
Amerson (1968)
;
Ramsay (1968)
;
Theiler (1971)
;
Heath (1977
,
2006
a
, 2010a);
Bishop & Heath (1998)
;
Gordon (2010)
.