Arthropods
🪲Cat flea
Ctenocephalides felis (Bouché, 1835)
La pulga del gato (Ctenocephalides felis) es una especie de insecto sifonáptero de la familia Pulicidae, una de las más abundantes y de mayor distribución mundial.
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- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumArthropoda
- ›classInsecta
- ›orderSiphonaptera
- ›familyPulicidae
- ›genusCtenocephalides
- ›speciesCtenocephalides felis
Full lineage
- classInsects · Insecta
- familyPulicidae
- subfamilyArchaeopsyllinae
- genusCtenocephalides
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumArthropoda
- subphylumHexapoda
- classInsects · Insecta
- subclassPterygota
- orderSiphonaptera
- familyPulicidae
- subfamilyArchaeopsyllinae
- genusCtenocephalides
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blecha kočičí (cs), kissankirppu (fi), 고양이 벼룩 (ko), Ctenocephalides felis (fr), kattenvlo (nl), Pchła kocia (pl) … and 16 more languages
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