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Pulex

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Description

Pulex is a genus of fleas. It comprises six species. One is the human flea (P. irritans), and the other five are confined to the Nearctic and Neotropical regions.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulex, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1419545	https://www.gbif.org/species/1419545
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	221792	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=221792

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Siphonaptera : Pulicidae : Pulex

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
-	Aparaglossata
-	Mecopterida
superorder	Antliophora
order	Siphonaptera	Latreille 1825
family	Pulicidae
genus	Pulex	Linnæus 1758

Scientific Name

Pulex Linnaeus, 1758

Name Published In

Linnæus, Carolus. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. Vol. Tomus I, Editio decima, reformata: i-ii, 1-824.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pulex	genus	belongs to Aptera	stated with evidence	Linnaeus, 1758
Pulex	genus	belongs to Insecta	stated with evidence	Geoffroy, 1762
Pulex	genus	belongs to Pedestria	stated with evidence	Scopoli, 1763
Pulex	genus	belongs to Aptera	stated with evidence	Müller, 1764
Pulex	genus	belongs to Ryngota	stated with evidence	Fabricius, 1775
Pulex	genus	belongs to Aptera	stated with evidence	Müller, 1776
Pulex	genus	belongs to Pulicidae	stated with evidence	Lewis and Grimaldi, 1997

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 13.8 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulex

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Pulex alvarezi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pulex arizonensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pulex bruneri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pulex coloradensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pulex divisus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pulex echidnophagoides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pulex gillettei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pulex grossiventris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pulex hirsutus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pulex ignotus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pulex irritans species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pulex keeni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pulex larimerius ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Pulex lutzii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pulex montanus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pulex multispinsus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pulex penicilliger species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pulex porcinus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pulex pungens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pulex sciurorum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pulex simulans species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pulex sinoculus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pulex vespertilionis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Rhynchoprion Oken, 1815	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Siphonaptera : Pulicidae : *Rhynchoprion*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1758	Pulex Linnaeus p. 614
1761	Pulex Linnaeus p. 479
1762	Pulex Geoffroy p. 614
1763	Pulex Scopoli p. 386
1764	Pulex Müller p. 91
1766	Pulex Schaeffer
1767	Pulex Linnaeus p. 1021
1775	Pulex Fabricius p. 732
1776	Pulex Müller p. 186
1997	Pulex Lewis and Grimaldi

References

Linnaeus C. , Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1, 1-824 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.542

Linnaeus C. , Fauna Svecica: Sistens Animalia Sveciae Regni: Mammalia, Aves, Amphibia, Pisces, Insecta, Vermes, Distributa per Classes & Ordines, Genera & Species, cum Differentiis Specierum, Synonymis Auctorum, Nominibus Incolarum, Locis Natalium, Descriptionibus Insectorum, 1-578

Geoffroy E. L. , Histoire Abregée des Insectes qui se Trouvent aux Environs de Paris, Tome Second, 1-690

Scopoli G. A. , Entomologica Carniolica Exhibens Insecta Carnioliae Indigena et Distributa in Ordines, Genera, Species, Varietates Methodo Linnaeana, 1-421

Müller O. F. , Fauna Insectorum Fridrichsdalina, Sive Methodica Descriptio Insectorum Agri Fridrichsdalensis, cum Characteribus Genericis et Specificis, Nominibus Trivialibus, Locis Natalibus, Iconibus Allegatis, Novisque Pluribus Speciebus Additis, 1-96

Linnaeus C. , Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Duodecima 1 2, 533-1327

Fabricius J. C. , Systema Entomologiae, Sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species Adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus, 1-832

Müller O. F. , Zoologicae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae Indigenarum. Characteres, Nomina et Synonyma Imprimis Popularium, 1-281

Lewis R. E., Grimaldi D. (1997) A Pulicid Flea in Miocene Amber from the Dominican Republic (Insecta: Siphonaptera: Pulicidae), American Museum Novitates 3205, 1-9

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 104 57 generic names placed in the Official List.Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 73(5), 25-28 (1928) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. 10th edition. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Brinck-Lindroth, F.G.A.M. (2007) The fleas (Siphonaptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 41, 185 pp. - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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