Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories
Author
Guglielmone, Alberto A.
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guglielmone.alberto@inta.gob.ar
Author
Nava, Santiago
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nava.santiago@inta.gob.ar
Author
Robbins, Richard G.
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robbinsrg@si.edu
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-03-07
5251
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1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1
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169.
Ixodes nitens
Neumann, 1904
.
Oriental: 1)
Christmas Island
(
Keirans 1985c
).
Nuttall & Warburton (1911)
stated that
Ixodes nitens
was collected on
Christmas Island
, supposedly in the Pacific Ocean, but this locality was later corrected by
Keirans (1985b)
, who stated that
Christmas Island
is located in the
Indian Ocean.
This island is an Australian territory near
Sumatra
(
Indonesia
).
James
et al.
(2019)
described how the only known specimens of
Ixodes nitens
were obtained from the last specimens of
Rattus macleari
collected before this rodent became extinct in about 1904, it therefore being unlikely that
Ixodes nitens
exists on
Christmas Island
today.