| Ixodes uriae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Ixodida |
| Family: | Ixodidae |
| Genus: | Ixodes |
| Species: | I. uriae
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| Binomial name | |
| Ixodes uriae White, 1852
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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]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Bristol tick IDwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ 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.
- ^ 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.