American Castor Bean Tick
Ixodes cookei
American Castor Bean Tick: https://mail.marylandbiodiversity.org/species/9118
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Ixodes cookei
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Ixodida
Family: Ixodidae
Genus: Ixodes
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I. cookei
Binomial name
Ixodes cookei
Packard, 1869

Ixodes cookei is a species of tick. 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).[1] In the northeastern United States, it is a vector of Powassan virus.[2]

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  1. ^ Levine et al., 1991, p. 668; Reeves et al., 2002, p. 50
  2. ^ Reeves et al., 2002, p. 50

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  • Levine, J.F.; Sonenshine, D.E.; Nicholson, W.L.; Turner, R.T. (1991). "Borrelia burgdorferi in Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) from Coastal Virginia". Journal of Medical Entomology. 28 (5): 668–674. doi:10.1093/jmedent/28.5.668. PMID 1941936.
  • Reeves, W.K.; Durden, L.A.; Ritzi, C.M.; Beckham, K.R.; Super, P.E.; OConnor, B.M. (2007). "Ectoparasites and other ectosymbiotic arthropods of vertebrates in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA". Zootaxa. 1392 (1): 31. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1392.1.2.
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