#hard_tick__ixodid  ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head
  supertype:  #tick  any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals
  subtype:  #Ixodes_dammini  #Ixodes_neotomae  #Ixodes_pacificus  #Ixodes_scapularis  #sheeptick  #Ixodes_persulcatus  #Ixodes_dentatus  #Ixodes_spinipalpis  #wood_tick
  member of:  #family_Ixodidae__Ixodidae  hard ticks
     member of:  #order_Acarina__Acarina  mites and ticks
        member of:  #class_Arachnida__Arachnida  a large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegs; have four pairs of walking legs and no wings
           member of:  #superclass_Chelicerata__Chelicerata  spiders; scorpions; horseshoe crabs
              member of:  #phylum_Arthropoda__Arthropoda  jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes
                 member of:  #kingdom_Animalia__Animalia__animal_kingdom  taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals

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