Subtaxon | Rank | Featured subtaxa |
No of interactions |
No of references |
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Genus | 9 subtaxa | 94 trophisms | 13 references |
Family | IXODIDAE (hard ticks) |
Order | IXODIDA (ticks) |
Superorder | PARASITIFORMES (parasitiform mites) |
Subclass | ACARI (mites) |
Class | ARACHNIDA (mites, spiders, false scorpions, harvestmen etc.) |
Subphylum | CHELICERATA (a subphylum of arthropods) |
Phylum | ARTHROPODA (arthropods) |
Superphylum | ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders) |
Clade | Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals) |
Subkingdom | EUMETAZOA (metazoans) |
Kingdom | ANIMALIA (animals) |
Domain | Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
Life | BIOTA (living things) |
NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for IXODIDAE (hard ticks) |
Handling & Magnification | Author | Year | Title | Source |
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Anon. | Bristol University tick ID: online photographic guide to ticks | bristoltickid.blogs.ilrt.org/key-to-genera/ | ||
Ruedisueli, F.L. & Manship, B. | Tick Identification Key | webpages.lincoln.ac.uk/fruedisueli/FR-webpages/parasitology/Ticks/TIK/tick-key/index.htm | ||
Larvae | ||||
Snow, K.R. | 1978 | Identification of Larval Ticks found on small mammals in Britain | 14pp, The Mammal Society |
IXODIDAE (hard ticks) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:
Author | Year | Title | Source |
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Martyn, K P. | 1988 | Provisional atlas of the ticks (Ixodoidea) of the British Isles | 62pp, Biological Records Centre |
Regional | |||
Jaenson, T.G.T. & Jensen, J.-K. | 2007 | Records of ticks (Acari, Ixodidae) from the Faroe Islands | NJE Vol 54 (1): 11-15. |
Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to IXODIDAE (hard ticks):
BioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 32 images of IXODIDAE (hard ticks) |
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