Ctenocephalides is a flea genus[2] in the tribe Archaeopsyllini which includes the cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis and the dog flea, C canis. Species and subspecies in the genus infest a wide variety of hosts, including sheep and goats, wild carnivores (such as foxes, civets and jackals), hares, hyraxes, ground squirrels and hedgehogs.[3]
| Ctenocephalides | |
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| Ctenocephalides canis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Siphonaptera |
| Family: | Pulicidae |
| Subfamily: | Archaeopsyllinae |
| Genus: | Ctenocephalides Stiles & Collins, 1930 |
| Species and subspecies[1] | |
References
edit- ↑ "Ctenocephalides". NCBI taxonomy. Bethesda, MD: National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- ↑ Beaucournu, J.C.; Ménier, K. (1998). "Le genre Ctenocephalides Stiles et Collins, 1930 (Siphonaptera, Pulicidae)". Parasite. 5 (1): 3–16. doi:10.1051/parasite/1998051003. ISSN 1252-607X. PMID 9754292.
- ↑ Andrea L. Lawrence; Cameron E. Webb; Nicholas J. Clark; Ali Halajian; Andrei D. Mihalca; Jorge Miret; Gianluca D'Amico; Graeme Brown; Bersissa Kumsa; David Modrý; Jan Šlapeta (April 2019). "Out-of-Africa, human-mediated dispersal of the common cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis: The hitchhiker's guide to world domination". International Journal for Parasitology. 49 (5): 321–336. doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2019.01.001. PMID 30858050.
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