Linognathus
a genus of sucking lice of the family Linognathidae, mostly parasitic on ungulates. Includes L. africanus (goats), L. ovillus (sheep face or blue louse), L. pedalis (on hairless parts of limbs of sheep, called also foot louse), L. setosus (fox, dog), L. stenopis (goat), L. vituli (cattle—called also long-nosed cattle louse).
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Linognathus vituli. By permission from Bowman DD, Georgis' Parasitology for Veterinarians 8E, Saunders, 2002
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