Ixodes uriae White 1852 ...

• Main Authors: Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago, Robbins, Richard G.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Ixodida; Ixodidae; Ixodes; Ixodes uriae; Arctic; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Pacific; Indian; New Zealand; Antarc*; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7728755; https://zenodo.org/record/7728755

254. Ixodes uriae White, 1852. Circumpolar: Ixodes uriae represents a special zoogeographic case because most populations are confined to several remote islands in the north and south Atlantic Ocean, near the Arctic and Antarctic zones, respectively, and are also found on remote islands in the South Pacific and Indian Oceans close to the Antarctic, as well as on the Antarctic Peninsula itself. Additionally, islands near continental mainlands in the northernmost and southernmost portions of the world, as well as seashores in the northernmost portion of the Northern Hemisphere have been found infested with Ixodes uriae . This peculiar range is related to the breeding sites of the sea birds that are hosts of this tick. The geographic distribution of Ixodes uriae is peculiar and unrelated to the zoogeographic divisions followed in this study. Heath et al. (2011) also noted that several records of Ixodes uriae in New Zealand are from sea birds examined outside their breeding localities, a situation that surely ... : Published as part of Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, pp. 1-274 in Zootaxa 5251 (1) on pages 36-37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7704190 ...