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First record of the ixodid tick Amblyomma nitidum on Laticauda laticaudata (Serpentes: Elapidae) in Taiwan

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: The genus Laticauda Laurenti, 1768 is a small group of semi-aquatic elapid snakes native to the Indo-Malayan faunal region, although the ranges of some species extend to Australasia.This is the only genus in the Laticaudinae (Sea Kraits), one of the two extant subfamilies of sea snakes (the other is subfamily Hydrophiinae) (Rasmussen et al. 2011(Rasmussen et al. , 2014)).Worldwide, there are eight extant species of sea kraits (Uetz et al. 2024), and they are typically found in tropical shallow coastal habitats, coral reefs, and mangroves (Voris and Voris 1983).Unlike "true" sea snakes (e.g., genus Hydrophis Latreille,1801), which copulate in the sea and are viviparous (Sanders et al. 2013), sea kraits need to come on land to mate and lay eggs (Klemmer 1966, Heatwole 1999).In Taiwan, three species of sea

Source: Phyllomedusa Journal of Herpetology

DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v24i1p125-130

Authors: Ace Kevin S. Amarga, Richard G. Robbins, Chih-Wei Chen, Si-Min Lin

Institutions: National Taiwan University, Smithsonian Institution, National Taiwan Normal University

Language: English

Topic: Vector-borne infectious diseases

Subfield: Parasitology

Field: Immunology and Microbiology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4411690068

FWCI: 0.858

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