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Polyplax spinulosa

Synonyms: Haematopinus spinulosa; Haematopinus spinulosus; Pediculus denticulatus; Pediculus spinulosus (homotypic); Polyplax campylopteri

Wikipedia Abstract

Polyplax spinulosa is a sucking louse (Anoplura) from the genus Polyplax. It occurs worldwide and commonly infects its type host, the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), and related species like the black rat (Rattus rattus), Rattus pyctoris, Rattus nitidus, Rattus argentiventer, Rattus tanezumi, Rattus exulans, and Bandicota indica. It is also occasionally found in other rodents, such as the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) in North America.
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Providers

Parasite of 
Oryzomys palustris (marsh rice rat)[1]
Rattus norvegicus (Norway rat)[2]
Rattus rattus (black rat)[2]

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♦ 1Oryzomys palustris, James L. Wolfe, Mammalian Species No. 176, pp. 1-5 (1982)
♦ 2Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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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