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Ixodes cookei

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Arachnida

Family
  
Ixodidae

Scientific name
  
Ixodes cookei

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Ixodida

Genus
  
Ixodes

Rank
  
Species

Similar
  
Powassan virus, Deer tick virus, Haemaphysalis leporispalustris, Ixodes pacificus, Dermacentor albipictus

Ixodes cookei is a species of tick in the genus Ixodes. It is normally a parasite of carnivorans, such as raccoons, foxes, and weasels, but has also been recorded on the groundhog (Marmota monax) and the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris). In the northeastern United States, it is a vector of Powassan virus.

Literature cited

  • Levine, J.F., Sonenshine, D.E., Nicholson, W.L. and Turner, R.T. 1991. Borrelia burgdorferi in ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) from coastal Virginia. Journal of Medical Entomology 28(5):668–674.
  • Reeves, W.K., Durden, L.A., Ritzi, C.M., Beckham, K.R., Super, P.E. and O'Connor, B.M. 2007. Ectoparasites and other ectosymbiotic arthropods of vertebrates in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA (abstract only). Zootaxa 1392:31–68.

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