Ixodes [SEP] parent taxon
Ixodes
Ixodes is a genus of hard-bodied ticks (family Ixodidae). It includes important disease vectors of animals and humans (tick-borne disease), and some species (notably "Ixodes holocyclus") inject toxins that can cause paralysis. Some ticks in this genus may transmit the pathogenic bacterium "Borrelia burgdorferi" responsible for causing Lyme disease. Additional organisms that may be transmitted by "Ixodes" are parasites from the genus "Babesia", which cause babesiosis, and bacteria from the related genus "Anaplasma
fall victim to the kelp gull ("Larus dominicanus") and Pacific gull ("Larus pacificus"), particularly if parent birds have been disturbed.
External parasites include the feather mite species "Morinyssus simplex"—collected from a museum skin of Australasian gannet— the bird louse species "Pectinopygus bassani", and the tick species "Ixodes eudyptidis", the widespread "Ixodes uriae" and "Carios capensis".
Conservation status.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists the Australasian gannet as