Ctenocephalides felis

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Ctenocephalus cati (Megnin • Ctenocephalus concoloris (Weyenbergh • Ctenocephalus enneodus (Kolenati • Ctenocephalus murina (Tiraboschi • Ctenocephalus musculi (Sugimoto • Ctenocephalus nasuae (Weyenbergh • Ctenocephalus obscurus (Weyenbergh • Ctenocephalus rufulus (Weyenbergh • Ctenocephalus serraticeps (Gervais

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 21-Nov-2005

Similar Species

Members of the genus Ctenocephalides

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. canis (Dog Flea) · C. felis (Cat Flea) · C. felis felis (Cat Flea)

More Info

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Further Reading

• Bergey's manual of determinative bacteriology, by Robert S. Breed [and others] Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Co., 1957. url p. 954.
• Biology of Peromyscus (Rodentia) / Edited by John A. King. [Stillwater, Okla.]: American Society of Mammalogists, 1968. url p. 282.
• British journal of entomology and natural history. [London]: British Entomological and Natural History Society, 1988- url p. 211.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 357.
• Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1902-1971. url p. 125, p. 36, p. 51, p. 74.
• Check-list and bibliography on the occurrence of insects in birds' nests. Ames, Iowa State College Press[1959] url p. 323, p. 404, p. 405.
• College zoology [by] Robert W. Hegner [and] Karl A. Stiles. New York, Macmillan[1959] url p. 265.
• Composition of the family Didelphidae Gray, 1821 (Didelphoidea:Marsupialia), with a review of the morphology and behavior of the included four-eyed pouched opossums of the genus Philander Tiedemann, 1 Philip Hershkovitz. 86 1997 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, c1997. url fig. 17 , p. 30.
• Cooperative economic insect report. Hyattsville, MD. [etc.]Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs Animal and Plant Health Service. url p. 1005, p. 105, p. 1060, p. 1070, p. 1079, p. 1087, p. 114, p. 1186, p. 1263, p. 13, p. 158, p. 16, p. 160, p. 160, p. 163, p. 177, p. 180, p. 2, p. 215, p. 226, p. 246, p. 272, p. 295, p. 299, p. 354, p. 4, p. 446, p. 472, p. 5, p. 5, p. 5, p. 521, p. 531, p. 563, p. 569, p. 594, p. 608, p. 626, p. 658, p. 672, p. 680, p. 697, p. 7, p. 701, p. 730, p. 748, p. 763, p. 770, p. 777, p. 790, p. 811, p. 833, p. 837, p. 851, p. 872, p. 886, p. 896, p. 901, p. 930, p. 980, p. 980, p. 985, p. 992, p. 993.
• Embryology of insects and myriapods; the developmental history of insects, centipedes, and millepedes from egg desposition [!] to hatching, by Oskar A. Johannsen. .. and Ferdinand H. Butt. .. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, inc., 1941. url p. 356, p. 456.
• Entomological news. [Philadelphia]American Entomological Society, 1925- url p. 109, p. 137, p. 157, p. 27, p. 84.
• Fleas of eastern United States, by Irving Fox. .. Ames, Ia., The Iowa State College Press, 1940. url p. 111, p. 112, p. 114, p. 115, p. 116, p. 117, p. 118, p. 24.
• Fleas, flukes & cuckoos; a study of bird parasites, by Miriam Rothschild and Theresa Clay. New York, Macmillan, 1957. url p. 286, p. 287.
• Insects; the yearbook of agriculture, 1952. Washington: U.S.G.P.O., 1952. url p. 761.
• Mammals of the Soviet Union / V.G. Heptner, A.A. Nasimovich, and A.G. Bannikov; scientific editor, Robert S. Hoffmann. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Libraries and National Science Foundation, 1988- url p. 159.
• Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. 1963 Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1946-1996. url p. 25.
• Proceedings and transactions of the British Entomological and Natural History Society. London, British Entomological and Natural History Society. url p. 98.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 163.
• Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url , , , p. 237, p. 238, p. 303, p. 33, p. 35, p. 368, p. 660, p. 663, p. 792.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 85.
• Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Mosman, New South Wales [etc.]The Society. url p. 13.
• Siphonaptera collected during the 1965 Street Expedition to Afghanistan [by] Robert E. Lewis. 64 1973 [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1973. url p. 12, p. 153.
• Siphonaptera from Central America and Mexico; a morphologyical study of the aedeagus, with descriptions of new genera and species. 1 1950 Chicago, Natural History Museum, 1950. url explanation of plate 53 , p. 110, p. 89.
• Some mammals of Yemen and their ectoparasites / Colin Campbell Sanborn and Harry Hoogstraal. 34 1953 Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1953. url p. 238.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 17, 2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fle-100560
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14232730
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 560281

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