Amblyomma rhinocerotis is a species of tick belonging to the family Ixodidae. [2][3][4] The species was first discovered in 1778 in the southern parts of Africa; however it disappeared in the 1970s before reappearing again in 2017 in the northern parts of Africa. It is primarily a rhino parasite. [5]
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| Amblyomma rhinocerotis. Museum specimen | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Ixodida |
| Family: | Ixodidae |
| Genus: | Amblyomma |
| Species: | A. rhinocerotis
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| Amblyomma rhinocerotis De Geer, 1778
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Bibliography
edit- George Henry Falkiner Nuttall,William Francis Cooper,Cecil Warburton,Louis Edward Robinson - Ticks, a Monograph of the Ixodoidea,: Bibliography of the ixodoidea, Vol. 1-2
- Omobolanle Kushimo The Tick Genus Amblyomma in Africa: Phylogenyand Mutilocus DNA Barcoding
Horak, I. G., Boshoff, C. R., Cooper, D. V., Foggin, C. M., Govender, D., Harrison, A., Hausler, G., Hofmeyr, M., Kilian, J. W., MacFadyen, D. N., Nel, P. J., Peinke, D., Squarre, D., & Zimmermann, D. (2017). Parasites of domestic and wild animals in South Africa. XLIX. Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) infesting white and black rhinoceroses in southern Africa. The Onderstepoort journal of veterinary research, 84(1), e1–e11. Horak, I. G., Heyne, H., Williams, R., Gallivan, G. J., Spickett, A. M., Bezuidenhout, J. D., & Estrada-Peña, A. (2018). The ixodid ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of southern Africa. Springer.
References
edit- ^ Camicas,J.-L., Hervy, J.-P., Adam, F. & Morel, P.C (1998) The Ticks of the World (Acarida, Ixodida). Nomenclature, Described stages, Hosts, Distribution, The Ticks of the World (Acarida, Ixodida). Nomenclature, Described stages, Hosts, Distribution
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