Ixodes dorriensmithi, Turk, 1948

Robbins, Richard G., Nava, Santiago, Ronai, Isobel, Chong, Kaylin L. & Guglielmone, Alberto A., 2025, Type specimens of the world’s hard tick species (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae): collection data and depositories for all valid names and the current status of invalid names, Zootaxa 5606 (1), pp. 1-287 : 72

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D0851EDA-FE18-4F87-9245-B108786B22F4

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8263FE48-FF82-4252-FF23-FC40FE5BFAD1

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Plazi

scientific name

Ixodes dorriensmithi
status

 

dorriensmithi Turk, 1948, Ixodes

Turk, F.A. (1948) On two new species of tick. Parasitology, 38, 243–246.

Type depositories: TC: syntypes (a female? nymphs? a larva?), BMNH (nymphs and larvae) ( Keirans & Hillyard 2001)

Type locality: Scilly Islands , Great Britain

Type host: Crocidura cassiteridium

Current status: a synonym of Ixodes acuminatus ( Keirans & Hillyard 2001) .

Comments: the developmental stages of specimens deposited in the TC are uncertain. Turk (1948) described this tick from a female, 14 nymphs and a larva collected from six Crocidura cassiteridium , but Keirans & Hillyard (2001) stated that Ixodes dorriensmithi was described from six specimens collected from Crocidura crassiteridium , which contradicts Turk’s (1948) statement above. Additionally, Keirans & Hillyard (2001) listed three larvae as deposited in the BMNH versus the single larva in the original description. Thus, the type data for Ixodes dorriensmithi should be considered provisional.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Ixodida

Family

Ixodidae

Genus

Ixodes

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