Nuttalliella namaqua, a New Genus and Species of Tick

1931/04/01 by G. A. H. Bedford · 7 citations
Immunology and Microbiology · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Vector-borne infectious diseases #Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research #Bird parasitology and diseases

paper · doi:10.1017/s0031182000013573

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Abstract

The following description is based upon a single fully engorged female collected under a stone at Kamieskroon, Little Namaqualand, by Dr R. F. Lawrence in October 1930. Dr Lawrence informs me that rock-rabbits were probably the commonest animals about the hill where he found it, but the host of the tick may be a bird.

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