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Ixodes texanus (Raccoon tick)

Synonyms: Pholeoixodes texanus

Wikipedia Abstract

Ixodes texanus is a species of tick in the genus Ixodes. It mainly infects raccoons (Procyon lotor), but has also been recorded on the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) in Georgia.
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Providers

Parasite of 
Mustela frenata (Long-tailed Weasel)[1]
Procyon lotor (Raccoon)[2]
Tamias speciosus (lodgepole chipmunk)[3]
Taxidea taxus (American Badger)[2]

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Mustela frenata, Steven R. Sheffield and Howard H. Thomas, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 570, pp. 1-9 (1997)
2Nunn, C. L., and S. Altizer. 2005. The Global Mammal Parasite Database: An Online Resource for Infectious Disease Records in Wild Primates. Evolutionary Anthroplogy 14:1-2.
3Tamias speciosus, Troy L. Best, Robin G. Clawson, and Joseph A. Clawson, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 478, pp. 1-9 (1994)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0