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Polyplacidae  Fahrenholz, 1912
Taxonomic Serial No.: 624295

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s):    
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2004   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderParaneoptera   
                               OrderPsocodea   
                                  SuborderAnoplura Leach, 1815 – sucking lice  
                                     FamilyPolyplacidae Fahrenholz, 1912  
    Direct Children:  
                                        GenusAbrocomaphthirus Durden and Webb, 1999  
                                        GenusCtenophthirus Ferris, 1922  
                                        GenusCuyana Ronderos and Capri, 1969  
                                        GenusDocophthirus Waterston, 1923  
                                        GenusEulinognathus Cummings, 1916  
                                        GenusFahrenholzia Kellogg and Ferris, 1915  
                                        GenusGaleophthirus Eichler, 1950  
                                        GenusHaemodipsus Enderlein, 1904  
                                        GenusJohnsonpthirus Benoit, 1961  
                                        GenusLagidiophthirus Eichler, 1950  
                                        GenusLemurpediculus Paulian, 1958  
                                        GenusLemurphthirus Bedford, 1927  
                                        GenusLinognathoides Cummings, 1914  
                                        GenusMirophthirus Chin, 1980  
                                        GenusNeohaematopinus Mjöberg, 1910  
                                        GenusPhthirpediculus Ewing, 1923  
                                        GenusPolyplax Enderlein, 1904  
                                        GenusProenderleinellus Ewing, 1923  
                                        GenusSathrax Johnson, 1964  
                                        GenusScipio Cummings, 1913  
                                        GenusTyphlomyophthirus Chin, 1980  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Lance A. Durden   
  Notes: Associate Professor and Associate Curator, Institute of Arthropodology & Parasitology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia 30460, USA   
  Reference for: Polyplacidae    
       
  Expert: Vincent S. Smith   
  Notes: Wellcome Trust Junior Research Fellow, Graham Kerr Building, DEEB, IBLS, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ. UK   
  Reference for: Polyplacidae    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: Mammal LouseBASE, database (version 05-Feb-03)  
  Acquired: 2003   
  Notes: http://r4-page.zoology.gla.ac.uk/MammalLouseBase/   
  Reference for: Polyplacidae   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Durden, Lance A., and Guy G. Musser   
  Publication Date: 1994   
  Article/Chapter Title: The sucking lice (Insecta, Anoplura) of the world: a taxonomic checklist with records of mammalian hosts and geographical distributions   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 218   
  Page(s): 90   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0003-0090   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Polyplacidae   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Original description/citation, per Durden & Musser (1994): 'Jahrb. Niedersachs. Zool. Ver. Hannover 2-4: 58'  
 

 

    


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