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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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Within Vinony's link graph, Carios is referenced by 5 other articles, and connects out to Holothyrida, Mesostigmata and mite.
It sits within the topics Arachnid genera, Argasidae and Taxa named by Pierre André Latreille.
Its subject is documented across 4 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderIxodida
- FamilyArgasidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 20
- Family
- Argasidae
- Collections
- OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ACAROLOGY LABORATORY, COLUMBUS, OH (OSAL), CASC
- Recorded in
- Pakistan, Switzerland, Papua New Guinea, Egypt, Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The, Indonesia, Tanzania, United States
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Encyclopedic overview
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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)
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