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Cheyletiella
Cheyletiella is a genus of mites that live on the skin surface of dogs, cats, and rabbits.
The adult mites are about 0.385 millimeters long, have eight legs with combs instead of claws, and have palpi that end in prominent hooks. They do not burrow into the skin, but live in the keratin level. Their entire 21-day life cycle is on one host. They cannot survive off the host for more than 10 days.
5 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Cheyletiella parasitivorax
speciesCheyletiella parasitivorax
Cheyletiella blakei
speciesCheyletiella blakei
Cheyletiella yasguri
speciesCheyletiella yasguri
Cheyletiella mexicana
speciesCheyletiella mexicana
Cheyletiella parasitovorax
speciesCheyletiella parasitovorax
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 249555.