ADW: Argas: CLASSIFICATION

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Kingdom Animalia (animals)
- Eumetazoa (metazoans)
  - Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
    - Protostomia (protostomes)
      - Ecdysozoa
        
        Arthropoda
        
        Class Arachnida
        
        Order Ixodida
        
        Family Argasidae
        
        Genus Argas
        
        Species Argas abdussalami
        
        Species Argas acinus
        
        Species Argas africolumbae
        
        Species Argas arboreus (Egyptian heron rookery argasid)
        
        Species Argas assimilis
        
        Species Argas beijingensis
        
        Species Argas beklemischevi
        
        Species Argas brevipes
        
        Species Argas brumpti
        
        Species Argas bureschi
        
        Species Argas canestrinii
        
        Species Argas cooleyi
        
        Species Argas cucumerinus (Peruvian cucumiform argasid)
        
        Species Argas dalei (Dale´s Peruvian burrowing-owl argasid)
        
        Species Argas delanoei
        
        Species Argas dulus
        
        Species Argas eboris
        
        Species Argas echinops
        
        Species Argas falco
        
        Species Argas foleyi
        
        Species Argas giganteus
        
        Species Argas gilcolladoi
        
        Species Argas hermanni
        
        Species Argas himalayensis
        
        Species Argas hoogstraali
        
        Species Argas japonicus
        
        Species Argas keiransi
        
        Species Argas lagenoplastis (Australian fairy martin argasid)
        
        Species Argas lahorensis
        
        Species Argas latus
        
        Species Argas lowryae
        
        Species Argas macrostigmatus
        
        Species Argas magnus (Ecuadorian pyriform argasid)
        
        Species Argas miniatus (Chicken tick)
        
        Species Argas monachus
        
        Species Argas monolakensis
        
        Species Argas moreli
        
        Species Argas neghmei (Neghme´s South American bird argasid)
        
        Species Argas nullarborensis
        
        Species Argas peringueyi
        
        Species Argas persicus (Bluebug)
        
        Species Argas peusi
        
        Species Argas polonicus
        
        Species Argas radiatus (North American bird Argas)
        
        Species Argas reflexus (African bird Argasid)
        
        Species Argas ricei
        
        Species Argas robertsi (Robert's Australian bird argasid)
        
        Species Argas sanchezi (Adobe tick)
        
        Species Argas streptopelia (African dove argasid)
        
        Species Argas striatus
        
        Species Argas theilerae (Theiler's African White-backed vulture argasid)
        
        Species Argas transgariepinus (Secretive bat-argas)
        
        Species Argas tridentatus
        
        Species Argas vansomereni (Van Someren's Kenya swallow-nest argasid)
        
        Species Argas vulgaris
        
        Species Argas walkerae (Southern Fowl tampan)
        
        Species Argas zumpti (Zumpt's South African Cape-vulture argasid)

Confused by a class within a class or an order within an order? Please see our brief essay.

To cite this page: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2012. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org.

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