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Ixodes eudyptidis Maskell 1885

Creators

  • 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 eudyptidis Maskell, 1885

Hosts(s)

Seabirds: Eudyptes pachyrhynchus, Megadyptes antipodes, Eudyptula minor, Diomedea sanfordi, Thalassarche bulleri platei, Thalassarche eremita, Pterodroma solandri, Pterodroma lessonii, Pterodroma cookii, Pachyptila turtur, Pelecanoides urinatrix urinatrix, Pelecanoides urinatrix chathamensis, Morus serrator, Phalacrocorax carbo novaehollandiae, Stictocarbo punctatus punctatus, Platalea regia, Larus dominicanus, Larus novaehollandiae scopulinus, Hydroprogne caspia, Chlidonias hybridus.

Land bird: Anas sp.

Mammal: Mus musculus (experimental).

Distribution

World: Tasmania, Bass Strait islands, New South Wales, Western Australia (Roberts 1970).

New Zealand: North and South Islands, Stewart Island, Chatham and Snares Islands.

References: Maskell (1885); Nuttall (1916); Dumbleton (1953, 1961, 1963); Roberts (1970); Bishop & Heath (1998); Heath (1977, 2006 a, 2010a); Heath & Cane (2010); Gordon (2010).

Note: Information for this species has not yet been entered into the Cane (2011) website.

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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Related works

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Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.203775 (DOI)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/D155FFB3FFFC2374FFB7FFDDFFC5FFA7 (URL)
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Biodiversity

Family
Ixodidae
Genus
Ixodes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Ixodida
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Maskell
Species
eudyptidis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ixodes eudyptidis Maskell, 1885 sec. Heath, Palma, Cane & Hardwick, 2011

References

  • Maskell, W. M. (1885) On a parasite of the penguin. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 17, 19 - 20, pl. VII.
  • Roberts, F. H. S. (1970) Australian ticks. CSIRO, Melbourne. 267 pp.
  • 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. (2006 a) Observations on Ixodes eudyptidis Maskell (Acari: Ixodidae), Ornithodoros capensis Neumann (Acari: Argasidae), and other tick parasites of sea birds in New Zealand. Systematic & Applied Acarology, 11, 131 - 140.
  • 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. & Cane, R. P. (2010) A new species of Ixodiphagus (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae) parasitizing seabird ticks in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 37 (2), 147 - 155.
  • 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).