First record of the sea snake tick Amblyomma nitidum Hirst and Hirst, 1910 (Acari: Ixodidae) from Taiwan

First record of the sea snake tick Amblyomma nitidum Hirst and Hirst, 1910 (Acari: Ixodidae) from Taiwan

The sea snake tick (Amblyomma nitidum) is a host specialist of snakes in the genus Laticauda and is one of the few ticks which could be regarded as semi-marine. Yet despite the attention this species has received due to its bizarre ecology, its distribution remains poorly known as geographic records...

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Veröffentlicht in:Ticks and tick-borne diseases 2020-05, Vol.11 (3), p.101383-101383, Article 101383
Hauptverfasser: Kwak, Mackenzie L., Kuo, Chi-Chien, Chu, Ho-Tsung
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Amblyomma
Animal Distribution
Animals
Hydrophiidae - parasitology
Ixodidae - physiology
Laticauda colubrina
Male
Museum
reptile
Taiwan
Taiwanese
Tick Infestations - parasitology
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Zusammenfassung:The sea snake tick (Amblyomma nitidum) is a host specialist of snakes in the genus Laticauda and is one of the few ticks which could be regarded as semi-marine. Yet despite the attention this species has received due to its bizarre ecology, its distribution remains poorly known as geographic records of its occurrence through the Asia-Pacific are highly fragmentary. For the first time this species is recorded from Taiwan based on specimens collected from the yellow-lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrina).
ISSN:1877-959X
1877-9603
DOI:10.1016/j.ttbdis.2020.101383