Prolistrophorus bakeri

Prolistrophorus bakeri is a parasitic mite in the genus Prolistrophorus. Together with the Argentine P. hirstianus, it forms the subgenus Beprolistrophorus.[1] P. bakeri has been found on the hispid cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus), marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris), and cotton mouse (Peromyscus gossypinus) in Georgia, South Carolina, Texas, and Florida[2] and on Oryzomys couesi in Colima.[3] It was formerly placed in the genus Listrophorus.[4]

Prolistrophorus bakeri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Sarcoptiformes
Family: Listrophoridae
Genus: Prolistrophorus
Subgenus: Beprolistrophorus
Species:
P. bakeri
Binomial name
Prolistrophorus bakeri
(Radford, 1949)

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References

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  1. ^ Fain and Lukoschus, 1984
  2. ^ Whitaker and Wilson, 1974, p. 11; Whitaker et al., 2007, p. 24
  3. ^ Estébanes-González et al., 2011, table 1
  4. ^ Whitaker et al., 2007, p. 21

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