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Amblyomma varium
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Amblyomma varium

Amblyomma varium, or carrapato-gigante-da-preguiça (sloth's giant tick), is a species of hard-backed ticks of the genus Amblyomma, a blood feeding parasite. The adult stage of this tick is specific to the sloths Bradypus tridactylus, Bradypus variegatus, Bradypus torquatus, Choloepus hoffmanni and Choloepus didactylus, with others being considered only incidental infections. It can be found in South America.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 900278.