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Carios
Sign in to saveCarios is a genus of soft ticks belonging to the family Argasidae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderIxodida
- FamilyArgasidae
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Carios is a genus of soft ticks belonging to the family Argasidae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.
==Species== Carios is one of nine genera in the Argasid subfamily Ornithodorinae. The genus currently contains 8 species. C. (Carios) australiensis (Kohls and Hoogstraal, 1962) C. (Carios) daviesi (Kaiser and Hoogstraal, 1973) C. (Carios) dewae (Kaiser and Hoogstraal, 1974) C. (Carios) macrodermae (Hoogstraal, Moorhouse, Wolf and Wassef, 1977) C. (Carios) pusillus (Kohls, 1950) C. (Carios) quadridentatus Heath, 2012 C. (Carios) sinensis (Jeu and Zhu, 1982) C. (Carios) vespertilionis (Latreille, 1796)