Species Ixodes eudyptidis Maskell, 1885

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• Ixodes eudyptidis Maskell, W.M. 1885. On a parasite of the penguin. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 17: 19-20 pl. VIII.
• Ixodes neumanni Nuttall, G.H.F. & Warburton, C. 1911. Ticks. A Monograph of the Ixodoidea. Part II. Ixodidae. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press pp. i-ix 105-293.

Introduction

Heath & Palma (2017) showed that many published records of Ixodes eudyptidis actually refer to another species, which they described as Ixodes laridis Heath & Palma, 2017. Ixodes eudyptidis occurs only on penguins, while Ixodes laridis occurs on gulls, gannets, and cormorants. All previous records of I. eudyptidis should be reconsidered in that context.

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 eudyptidis)

Heath, A.C.G. & Palma, R.L. 2017. A new species of tick (Acari: Ixodidae) from seabirds in New Zealand and Australia, previously misidentified as Ixodes eudyptidis. Zootaxa 4324(2): 285-314. (as Ixodes eudyptidis)

Kwak, M.L. & Madden, C. 2017. The first record of infestation by a native tick (Acari: Ixodidae) on the Australian emu (Dromaius novaehoolandiae) and a review of tick paralysis in Australian birds. Experimental and Applied Acarology 73: 103-107. (as Ixodes eudyptidis)

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