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Pthiridae  Ewing, 1929
Taxonomic Serial No.: 624296

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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  
                                     FamilyPthiridae Ewing, 1929  
    Direct Children:  
                                        GenusPthirus Leach, 1815  
       

 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: Pthiridae    
       
  Expert: Vincent S. Smith   
  Notes: Wellcome Trust Junior Research Fellow, Graham Kerr Building, DEEB, IBLS, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ. UK   
  Reference for: Pthiridae    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: Mammal LouseBASE, database (version 05-Feb-03)  
  Acquired: 2003   
  Notes: http://r4-page.zoology.gla.ac.uk/MammalLouseBase/   
  Reference for: Pthiridae   
       
  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: Pthiridae   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Original description/citation, per Durden & Musser (1994): 'A manual of external parasites, p. 132'  
 

 

    


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