Ticks (Acari: Ixodida) parasitizing free-living wild animals in the Caatinga biome in the state of Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil

Systematic and Applied Acarology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 207-211

  Horta, Mauricio C ^a   do Nascimento, Gabriela F ^a   Martins, Thiago F ^b   Labruna, Marcelo B ^b   Machado, Luiz C P ^a   Nicola, Patrícia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO VALE DO SÃO FRANCISCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Caatinga; Pernambuco; Ticks; Wild animals

Indexed keywords

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA AURICULARIUM; AMBLYOMMA PARVUM; AMBLYOMMA ROTUNDATUM; ANIMALIA; ARMADILLO; BOA CONSTRICTOR; CARNIVORA; CONEPATUS SEMISTRIATUS; DIDELPHIDAE; EUPHRACTUS; GALEA SPIXII; IXODIDA; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; ORNITHODOROS; SUIDAE; THRICHOMYS APEREOIDES; WIEDOMYS PYRRHORHINOS;

EID: 84863840344     PISSN: 13621971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11158/saa.16.3.3     Document Type: Article

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