Publication Type: | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Authors: | B. Mehlhorn, Mehlhorn H. |
Editor: | S. Klimpel, Kuhn, T., Mehlhorn, H. |
Book Title: | Biodiversity and Evolution of Parasitic Life in the Southern Ocean. Parasitology Research Monographs |
Volume: | 9 |
Chapter: | 10 |
Publisher: | Springer Nature |
City: | Cham, Switzerland |
ISBN: | 978-3-319-46342-1 (print), SBN 978-3-319-46343-8 (e-book) |
Keywords: | Antarctic waters, Antarctophthirus, Echinophthirus, Lepidophthirus, Proechinophthirus, seals |
Abstract: | Lice (Phthiraptera) are ectoparasites, which stroll on the surface of their warm-blooded hosts. The members of the suborder Anoplura suck blood, while the so-called biting lice (Mallophaga) feed on skin particles and/or hair of their hosts. The species of the skin feeding mallophages parasitize practically exclusively at terrestrial animals, while among the bloodsucking species of the Anoplura also semi-aquatic species exist, which parasitize permanently at marine mammalian animals. |
URL: | http://phthiraptera.info/sites/phthiraptera.info/files/94320.pdf |
DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-46343-8 |
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