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Published on: September 6, 2011
Ectoparasites from river otters in Pennsylvania
T L Serfass1, L M Rymon, R P Brooks
1School of Forest Resources, Forest Resources Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802.
Journal of Wildlife Diseases
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
Twenty-three livetrapped and two trapper-caught river otters (Lutra canadensis) from northeastern Pennsylvania (USA) were examined for ectoparasites immediately after their captures during 1981 to 1985. Ectoparasites were collected from both trapper-caught otters, but from only one livetrapped otter. One species of tick (Ixodes cookei) and one flea (Oropsylla arctomys) were collected.
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