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Who are elephant lice?

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Chromocenter, 23.03.2006 1:37

Indeed, I once heard about such people, I even heard that they sometimes seem to be allocated to an independent unit. But here's how these lice are so different from others... And I don't even know how they are called in Latin, probably, I didn't find anything on this through Google... Maybe someone can help?

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23.03.2006 10:48, Tigran Oganesov

Elephant louse (Haematomyzus elephantis). From the order of lice (Anoplura). I also heard that someone puts Rhyncophthiraptera in a separate group. I'm not familiar with them myself, so I can't assess whether it's legitimate. For me so lice are lice wink.gif
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23.03.2006 17:37, Juglans

But she has SUCH a healthy proboscis-2 mm! Lice don't do this.

23.03.2006 17:46, Chromocenter

"But it has SUCH a healthy proboscis-2 mm! Lice don't have that kind of thing."
Of course-the elephant is also not some kind of mouse. But still the proboscis is long: is this enough for the squad?

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