Ceratophyllus gallinae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Siphonaptera
- Family
- Ceratophyllidae
- Genus
- Ceratophyllus
- Species
- Ceratophyllus gallinae
- Scientific Name
- Ceratophyllus gallinae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Ceratophyllus gallinae
Ceratophyllus gallinae, known as the hen flea in Europe or the European chicken flea elsewhere, is an ectoparasite of birds. This flea was first described by the German botanist and entomologist Franz von Paula Schrank in 1803.
...Ceratophyllus gallinae in languages:
- Bokmål
- hønseloppe
- Czech
- blecha slepičí
- Danish
- Hønseloppe
- Dutch
- Kippenvlo
- English
- European Chicken Flea
- Finnish
- kanankirppu
- Swedish
- hönsloppa
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