Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jimenez, Michael D.
• Bangs, Edward E.
• Drew, Mark
• Nadeau, Steven
• Asher, Val J.
• Sime, Carolyn

Titel

Dog Lice (Trichodectes canis) Found on Wolves (Canis lupus) in Montana and Idaho

Ist Teil von

• Northwestern naturalist (Olympia, Wash.), 2010-12, Vol.91 (3), p.331-333

Ort / Verlag

Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405: Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Dog Lice frequently infest domestic dogs and other wild canids in North America. Gray Wolves infested with Dog Lice were identified on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska in 1981-1983 in Interior Alaska near Denali National Park in 1999 and in Tanana Flats, south of Fairbanks, Alaska in 2003. Here, Jimenez et al report their first recorded cases of Dog Lice infesting 14 Wolves in 9 different packs in Montana and Idaho from 2005 through 2007. In 2006 and 2007, state veterinarians documented Idaho wolves infested with Dog Lice during necropsies performed at the Idaho Fish and Game wildlife Health Laboratory in Caldwell, Idaho. They stress that Dog Lice are difficult to diagnose by the naked eye unless specifically searched.