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Martes americana Baker 1899

Description

S. americana (Baker, 1899)

Hystrichopsylla americana Baker, 1899: 37. Stenoponia wetmorei Chapin, 1919: 52.

Stenoponia americana Jordan, 1937:285.

Distribution. Canada, USA, and Mexico.

Hosts. Blarina brevicauda, B. carolinensis, and Sorex cinereus. Other hosts. Didelphimorphia: Didelphis virginiana. Insectivora (Talpidae): Scalopus aquaticus. Rodentia: Clethrionomys gapperi, Microtus ochrogaster, M. o. minor, M. pennsylvanicus, M. pinetorum, M. richardsoni arviculoides, Microtus sp., Peromyscus gossypinus, P. leucopus, and P. l. noveboracensis (Wilson, 1957; Benton & Kelly, 1975; Hopkins & Rothschild, 1962; McCay, 2001; Salceda­Sánchez & Hastriter, 2006).

Other

Published as part of Morrone, Juan J. & Acosta, Roxana, 2006, A synopsis of the fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera) parasitizing New World species of Soricidae (Mammalia: Insectivora), pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1354 on page 17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.273605

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Mustelidae
Genus
Martes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Carnivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Baker
Species
americana
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Martes americana Baker, 1899 sec. Morrone & Acosta, 2006

References

  • Baker, C. F. (1899) On two new and one previously known flea. Entomological News, 10, 37 - 38.
  • Chapin, E. A. (1919) New species of North American Siphonaptera. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 14, 49 - 62.
  • Jordan, K. (1937) On some North American Siphonaptera. Novitates Zoologicae, 40, 262 - 271.
  • Wilson, N. (1957) Some ectoparasites from Indiana mammals. Journal of Mammalogy, 38, 281 - 282.
  • Benton, H. A. & Kelly, D. L. (1975) An annotated list of New York Siphonaptera. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 83, 142 - 156.
  • Hopkins G. H. E. & Rothschild, M. (1962) An illustrated catalogue of the Rothschild Collection of fleas (Siphonaptera) in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). Vol. 3. British Museum (Natural History), London, 560 pp.
  • McCay, T. S. (2001) Blarina carolinensis. Mammalian Species, 673, 1 - 7.
  • Salceda-Sanchez, B. & Hastriter, M. W. (2006) A list of the fleas (Siphonaptera) of Mexico with new host and distributional records. Zootaxa, 1296, 29 - 43.