any of various small parasitic arachnids of the family Ixodidae, typically living on the skin of warm-blooded animals and feeding on the blood and tissues of their hosts: order Acarina (mites and ticks)
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As a result, we propose a number of 63 coendangered and one extinct hard-tick species.
Cozma Vasile, Gherman Călin, Mihalca Andrei 2011, 'Coendangered hard-ticks: threatened or threatening?', Parasites & Vectorshttp://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/4/1/71. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)