Echidna flea

Echidna flea

Taxobox
name = Echidna flea
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Siphonaptera
familia = Pygiopsyllidae
genus = "Bradiopsylla"
species = "B. echidnae"
binomial = "Bradiopsylla echidnae"
binomial_authority = (Denny, 1843)

The echidna flea ("Bradiopsylla echidnae") is thought to be the world's largest flea and it parasitises the short-beaked echidna. It reaches 4 millimetres in length.

References

* [http://www.deh.gov.au/cgi-bin/abrs/fauna/details.pl?pstrVol=SIPHONAPTERA;pstrTaxa=223;pstrChecklistMode=2 Australian Faunal Directory]


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