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Also known as the Seabird tick
Hosts
Seabirds: puffin, penguin, guillemot, razorbill, kittiwake, gannet, fulmar, gull, cormorant, shag, black guillemot, curlew, crossbill, starling, wheatear
Distribution
French territories (Crozet Islands, Kerguelen Islands), North West England, Ireland, Norway, Iceland
Ixodes uriae are generally found in nests of birds that breed as perennial colonies and can be found in vacated nests under stones or in cracks
Pathogenesis
Seabirds: Borrelia burgdorferi and approximately 53 types of arboviruses have been detected from I. uriae
Description
Adult female dorsal features
(Specimen courtesy of the Natural History Museum, London)
Adult female dorsal view (click on pictures for a close up)
Adult female ventral features
(Specimen courtesy of the Natural History Museum, London)
Adult female ventral view (click on pictures for a close up)
Adult male dorsal features
Adult male dorsal view- note the third limb is broken and facing backwards (click on pictures for a close up)
Adult male ventral features
Adult male ventral view (click on pictures for a close up)
Posterior brush setae localised around the festoons (click on picture for a close up)