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Noun: Ixodes scapularis
  1. Parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States (especially New England); northern form was for a time known as Ixodes dammini (deer tick)
    - black-legged tick

Type of: hard tick, ixodid

Part of: genus Ixodes, Ixodes

Encyclopedia: Ixodes scapularis

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Ixobrychus
Ixobrychus exilis
Ixodes
Ixodes dammini
Ixodes dentatus
Ixodes neotomae
Ixodes pacificus
Ixodes persulcatus
Ixodes ricinus
Ixodes scapularis
Ixodes spinipalpis
ixodid
Ixodidae
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Izanagi
Izanami
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