Chewing Lice Found on Captive Tufted Puffin, Fratercula cirrhata

During the postmortem of tufted puffin chicks (Fratercula cirrhata), who died a few days after hatching in the aquarium, a large number of chewing lice were collected. These lice were identified as Quadraceps helgovauki (Philopteridae) based on morphological caracteristics. This is the first record...

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Main Authors: OHTA Sora, YOSHINO Tomoo, SUZUKI Natsumi, TOMISAWA Nami, ITO Takaomi, Asakawa Mitsuhiko
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 日本野生動物医学会 2021
Subjects:
エトピリカ
飼育下繁殖
ハジラミ
fratercula
Online Access:https://rakuno.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=6698
http://hdl.handle.net/10659/00006931
https://rakuno.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=6698&item_no=1&attribute_id=21&file_no=1
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Summary:During the postmortem of tufted puffin chicks (Fratercula cirrhata), who died a few days after hatching in the aquarium, a large number of chewing lice were collected. These lice were identified as Quadraceps helgovauki (Philopteridae) based on morphological caracteristics. This is the first record of Q. helgovauki from F. cirrhata and in Japan. 国内水族館で飼育され、孵化後3日で死亡したエトピリカ(Fratercula cirrhata)のヒナの剖検において、多数のハジラミ類が採集された。ハジラミは形態学的にニシツノメドリから報告のある Quadraceps helgovaukiと同定された。本種はエトピリカから初めて記録され、また国内初記録であった。

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