Nuttalliella

Nuttalliella namaqua
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Subclass:	Acari
Superorder:	Parasitiformes
Order:	Ixodida
Family:	Nuttalliellidae Schulze, 1935
Genus:	Nuttalliella Bedford, 1931
Species:	N. namaqua
Binomial name
Nuttalliella namaqua Bedford, 1931 [1]

Nuttalliella namaqua is a tick found in southern Africa from Tanzania to Namibia and South Africa,^[2] which is placed in its own family, Nuttalliellidae.^[3] It can be distinguished from ixodid ticks and argasid ticks by a combination of characters including the position of the stigmata, lack of setae, strongly corrugated integument, and form of the fenestrated plates.^[4] It is the most basal lineage of ticks.^[5]

References

1. ^ G. A. H. Bedford (1931). "Nuttalliella namaqua, a new genus and species of tick". Parasitology 23: 230–232. doi:10.1017/S0031182000013573. 
2. ^ James E. Keirans, Carleton M. Clifford, Harry Hoogstraal & Emmett R. Easton (1976). "Discovery of Nuttalliella namaqua Bedford (Acarina: Ixodoidea: Nuttalliellidae) in Tanzania and redescription of the female based on scanning electron microcopy". Annals of the Entomological Society of America 69 (5): 926–932. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/esa/aesa/1976/00000069/00000005/art00034. 
3. ^ Alberto A. Guglielmone, Richard G. Robbins, Dmitry A. Apanaskevich, Trevor N. Petney, Agustín Estrada-Peña, Ivan G. Horak, Renfu Shao & Stephen C. Barker (2010). "The Argasidae, Ixodidae and Nuttalliellidae (Acari: Ixodida) of the world: a list of valid species names" (PDF). Zootaxa 2528: 1–28. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02528p028f.pdf. 
4. ^ Mohamed A. Roshdy, Harry Hoogstraal, Abdulelah A. Banaja & Samir M. El Shoura (1983). "Nuttalliella namaqua (Ixodoidea: Nuttalliellidae): spiracle structure and surface morphology". Parasitology Research 69 (6): 817–821. doi:10.1007/BF00927431. 
5. ^ Ben J. Mans, Daniel de Klerk, Ronel Pienaar & Abdalla A. Latif (2011). "Nuttalliella namaqua: a living fossil and closest relative to the ancestral tick lineage: implications for the evolution of blood-feeding in ticks". PLoS ONE 6 (8): e23675. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023675. http://www.ploscollections.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0023675.