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Ixodes anatis Chilton 1904

  • 1. AgResearch, National Centre for Biosecurity and Infectious Disease, Wallaceville, P. O. Box 40063, Upper Hutt, New Zealand, 5140
  • 2. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
  • 3. Mosquito Consulting Services (NZ), P. O. Box 69 - 198, Lincoln 7640, New Zealand
  • 4. Biosecurity Group, AgResearch, Private Bag 4749, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand

Description

Ixodes anatis Chilton, 1904

Host(s)

Land birds: Apteryx mantelli, Apteryx australis lawryi, Apteryx australis australis; Anas superciliosa, A. platyrhynchos, Branta canadensis maxima, Gallirallus australis hectori (Chatham Islands; possibly a contaminant).

Distribution

World: New Zealand.

New Zealand: Widespread in northern two-thirds of North Island and southern South Island; Stewart Island.

References: Chilton (1904); Nuttall (1916); Dumbleton (1953, 1961, 1963); Bishop & Heath (1998); Heath (1977, 2010a, b); Gordon (2010); Cane (2011, last updated 2009).

Notes

Published as part of Heath, Allen C. G., Palma, Ricardo L., Cane, Rachel P. & Hardwick, Scott, 2011, Checklist of New Zealand ticks (Acari: Ixodidae, Argasidae), pp. 55-63 in Zootaxa 2995 on page 59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203775

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Ixodidae
Genus
Ixodes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Ixodida
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Chilton
Species
anatis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ixodes anatis Chilton, 1904 sec. Heath, Palma, Cane & Hardwick, 2011

References

  • Chilton, C. (1904) A species of Ixodes parasitic on the grey duck. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 36, 201 - 202, pl. X.
  • Nuttall, G. H. F. (1916) Notes on ticks. IV. Relating to the genus Ixodes and including a description of three new species and two new varieties. Parasitology, 8, 294 - 337.
  • Dumbleton, L. J. (1953) The ticks (Ixodoidea) of the New Zealand sub-region. New Zealand Cape Expedition Series Bulletin, 14, 1 - 28.
  • Dumbleton, L. J. (1961) The ticks (Acarina: Ixodoidea) of sea birds in New Zealand waters. New Zealand Journal of Science, 4, 760 - 769.
  • Dumbleton, L. J. (1963) A synopsis of the ticks (Acarina: Ixodoidea) of New Zealand. Tuatara, 11, 72 - 78.
  • Bishop, D. M. & Heath, A. C. G. (1998) Checklist of ectoparasites of birds in New Zealand. Surveillance, 25 (Special Issue), 13 - 31.
  • Heath, A. C. G. (1977) Zoogeography of the New Zealand tick fauna. Tuatara, 23, 26 - 38.
  • Heath, A. C. G. (2010 a) Checklist of ectoparasites of birds in New Zealand: additions and corrections. Surveillance, 37, 12 - 17.
  • Heath, A. C. G. (2010 b) A review of ectoparasites of Apteryx spp. (kiwi) in New Zealand, with new host records, and the biology of Ixodes anatis (Acari: Ixodidae). Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 21, 147 - 159.
  • Gordon, D. P. (ed.) (2010) New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Vo l u m e Tw o. Kingdom Animalia - Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. 528 pp.
  • Cane, R. P. (2011) Tick profiles. New Zealand Biosecure Entomology Laboratory http: // www. smsl. co. nz / Services / New + Zealand + BioSecure / Ticks. html (accessed February 2011).