Species Ixodes kerguelenensis André & Colas-Belcour, 1942

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• Ixodes canisuga kerguelenensis André, M. & Colas-Belcour, J. 1942. Sur une nouvelle variété d'Ixodes canisuga Johnston (Acarien). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 14: 261-263.
• Ixodes pterodromae Arthur, D.R. 1960. A review of some ticks (Acarina : Ixodidae) of sea birds. Part. II. The taxonomic problems associated with the Ixodes auritulus - percavatus group of species. Parasitology 50: 199-226.
• Ixodes zumpti Arthur, D.R. 1960. A review of some ticks (Acarina : Ixodidae) of sea birds. Part. II. The taxonomic problems associated with the Ixodes auritulus - percavatus group of species. Parasitology 50: 199-226.

Introduction

Most literature on this species uses the name Ixodes pterodromae. However Wilson (1970) synonymised I. pterodromae under I. kerguelenensis.

General References

Barker, D. 2019. Ixodes barkeri n. sp. (Acari: Ixodidae) from the short-beaked echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus, with a revised key to the male Ixodes of Australia, and list of the subgenera and species of Ixodes known to occur in Australia. Zootaxa 4658(2): 331-342 (as Ixodes kerguelenensis)

Barker, S.C., Walker, A.R. & Campelo, D. 2014. A list of the 70 species of Australian ticks; diagnostic guides to and species accounts of Ixodes holocyclus (paralysis tick), Ixodes cornuatus (southern paralysis tick) and Rhipicephalus australis (Australian cattle tick); and consideration of the place of Australia in the evolution of ticks with comments on four controversial ideas. International Journal for Parasitology 44: 941-953. (as Ixodes (Multidentatus) kerguelenensis)

Camicas, J.-L., Hervy, J.-P., Adam, F. & Morel, P.C. 1998. Les Tiques du Monde (Acarida, Ixodida). Paris : Orstom 233 pp. (as Ixodes kerguelenensis)

Roberts, F.H.S. 1960. A systematic study of the Australian species of the genus Ixodes (Acarina : Ixodidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 8: 392-485 (as Ixodes pterodromae)

Roberts, F.H.S. 1964. The males of Ixodes pterodromae Arthur and Ixodes australiensis Neumann (Acarina : Ixodidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Queensland 3: 75-78 (as Ixodes pterodromae)

Roberts, F.H.S. 1964. The tick fauna of Tasmania. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston 17: 1-8 (as Ixodes pterodromae)

Roberts, F.H.S. 1970. Australian Ticks. Melbourne : CSIRO 267 pp. (as Ixodes pterodromae)

Wilson, N. 1964. Insects of Campbell Island. Metastigmata : Ixodidae. Pacific Insects Monographs 7: 132-137 (as Ixodes pterodromae)

Wilson, N. 1970. Acarina: Metastigmata: Ixodidae of South Georgia, Heard and Kerguelen. Pacific Insects Monographs 23: 78-88 (as Ixodes kerguelenensis)

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