Kwak Mackenzie L, Kuo Chi-Chien, Chu Ho-Tsung
Department of Biological Science, National University of Singapore, 16 Science Drive 4, 117558, Singapore.
Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2020 May;11(3):101383. doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2020.101383. Epub 2020 Jan 25.
The sea snake tick (Amblyomma nitidum) is a host specialist of snakes in the genus Laticauda and is one of the few ticks which could be regarded as semi-marine. Yet despite the attention this species has received due to its bizarre ecology, its distribution remains poorly known as geographic records of its occurrence through the Asia-Pacific are highly fragmentary. For the first time this species is recorded from Taiwan based on specimens collected from the yellow-lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrina).
海蛇蜱（Amblyomma nitidum）是扁尾海蛇属蛇类的专一宿主蜱，是少数可被视为半海洋性的蜱类之一。然而，尽管该物种因其奇特的生态习性受到关注，但其分布情况仍鲜为人知，因为其在亚太地区出现的地理记录非常零散。首次根据从黄唇海蛇（Laticauda colubrina）采集的标本在台湾记录到该物种。
