Ctenocephalides felis Bouche
Description
Ctenocephalides felis (Bouché) —cat flea
Ex Felis silvestris (catus) (domestic/feral cat): TN, Blount Co., 23 Nov. 1947, D. W. Pfitzer (Pfitzer 1950, Benton 1980, Durden & Kollars 1997).
Ex Homo sapiens (human): TN, Blount Co., near Elkmont, 15 Jan. 2005, M. McCaroll.
Like the previous species, this flea has a cosmopolitan distribution. Ctenocephalides felis is more common than C. canis in most regions and parasitizes several mammalian species such as cats, dogs, humans, and Virginia opossums (Durden & Kollars 1997). The cat flea is a potential vector or intermediate host of Acanthocheilonema reconditum, Bartonella henselae, Bartonella koehlerae, Bartonella quintana, Dipylidium caninum, Rickettsia felis, Rickettsia sp. RF 2125, Rickettsia sp. RF 31, and Rickettsia typhi (Durden & Traub 2002; Reeves et al. 2005b; Rolain et al. 2005).
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.273680 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/191EFFF8FFEDFFC9FFAC5C2CFFBEFFD0 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/E5278780FFE0FFC4FF3B5D83FDD0FCE2 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/194182128 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/50155/taxon/E5278780FFE0FFC4FF3B5D83FDD0FCE2.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Bouche
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Siphonaptera
- Family
- Pulicidae
- Genus
- Ctenocephalides
- Species
- felis
- Taxon rank
- species