Ixodes uriae

Ixodes uriae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Ixodida
Family: Ixodidae
Genus: Ixodes
Species:
I. uriae
Binomial name
Ixodes uriae
White, 1852

Ixodes uriae, also known as the seabird tick, is a species of parasitic tick known to infest marine birds.[1][2] It is native to many high latitude areas in the northern and southern hemispheres including Alaska, Canada, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, England, Scotland, Norway, Finland, the Kola Peninsula, Russia, Patagonia, South Africa and Australia.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Bristol tick ID was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Björn Olsén; Thomas G. T. Jaenson; Laila Noppa; Jonas Bunikis; Sven Bergström (1993). "A Lyme borreliosis cycle in seabirds and Ixodes uriae ticks". Nature. 362 (6418): 340–342. Bibcode:1993Natur.362..340O. doi:10.1038/362340a0. PMID 8455718. S2CID 4275551.
  3. ^ María E. Casanueva; Hugo I. Moyano (2000). "Ixodes uriae White 1852 (Acari: Ixodidae) associated with the Papue Penguin, Pygoscelis papua (Forster), in the Antarctic Peninsula". Gayana. 64 (2). doi:10.4067/S0717-65382000000200012.