Fourie, L.J.Walker, Jane B.Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand2012-09-272012-09-2720122000Horak, IG, Braack, LEO, Fourie, LJ & Walker, JB 2000, 'Parasites of domestic and wild animals in South Africa. XXXVIII. Ixodid ticks collected from 23 wild carnivore species’. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 239-250.0330-24657102989086http://hdl.handle.net/2263/19906The articles have been scanned in colour with a HP Scanjet 5590; 600dpi. Adobe Acrobat v.9 was used to OCR the text and also for the merging and conversion to the final presentation PDF-format.Ixodid ticks were collected from 104 wild carnivores belonging to 23 species in various nature reserves and on several farms in all nine provinces of South Africa. Seven feral cats in a nature reserve were also examined. Twenty-four tick species belonging to seven genera were recovered and identified. Amongst these ticks we consider the adults of Haemaphysalis leachi, Haemaphysalis spinulosa, Haemaphysalis zumpti, Ixodes rubicundus, Rhipicentor nuttalli, Rhipicephalus simus and Rhipicephalus turanicus to be true parasites of wild carnivores. Although numerous adult Rhipicephalus appendiculatus and Rhipicephalus zambeziensis were collected from some lions these were either sick or old animals. The immature stages of seven species regularly utilized wild carnivores as hosts on an opportunistic basis.© ARC-Onderstepoort (original). © University of Pretoria. Dept of Library Services (digital).Veterinary medicineIxodid ticksSouth AfricaWild carnivoresVeterinary medicine -- South AfricaTicks -- ControlArticle