- 著者
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Kaito Kotani
Kandai Doi
Nana Ushine
Takuya Kato
Tatsuo Sato
Masaki Nonagase
Shin-ichi Hayama
- 出版者
- The Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology
- 雑誌
- 衛生動物 (ISSN:04247086)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.73, no.4, pp.157-159, 2022-12-25 (Released:2022-12-25)
- 参考文献数
- 20
An engorged ixodid tick was collected from a rescued short-tailed shearwater, Puffinus tenuirostris (Temminck), at Funabashi Sanbanse Seaside Park in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Based on morphological features, we identified the specimen as Ixodes kerguelenensis (André and Colas-Belcour), which is a species known to infest seabirds in Oceania. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of I. kerguelenensis in Japan. The case of infestation to the shearwater suggests the possibility of the long-distance translocation of the tick in Oceanian region to Japan.