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Campanulotes

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Kingdom
  
Suborder
  
Ischnocera

Phylum
  
Order
  
Louse

Class
  
Family
  
Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Louse, Columbicola extinctus, Ischnocera, Philopteridae, Chelopistes meleagridis

Campanulotes is a genus of lice in the disputed, probably paraphyletic, family Philopteridae, the chewing lice, or in the family Goniodidae.

It is mostly a genus of parasites on birds.

Some species in the genus may have been cases of coextinction. The species Campanulotes defectus was thought to have been unique to the passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius), an extinct bird from North America, but is now believed to have been a case of a contaminated specimen, as the species is considered to be the still-extant Campanulotes flavus of Australia.

Known species of ectoparasites of the common rock dove include Campanulotes bidentatus compar.

References

Campanulotes Wikipedia


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