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Ceratophyllus diffinis

species of flea

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 14, 2022
Entity authorityQ10445970 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ceratophyllus diffinis is a species of flea in the family Ceratophyllidae. It was described by Karl Jordan in 1925.

Editorial summary

“Ceratophyllus diffinis” enters the record as species of flea. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ceratophyllus, diffinis and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1925—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ceratophyllus, diffinis and species.
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Why this record matters

“Ceratophyllus diffinis” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ceratophyllus, diffinis and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 14, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q10445970. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1925.

Critical limits

Current terminology should not be projected backward without checking the classification used when the underlying evidence was created. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Ceratophyllus diffinis primary sources, Ceratophyllus diffinis archive and Ceratophyllus research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Ceratophyllus diffinis”?
  2. Which observation, specimen, dataset or publication supports the account?
  3. Has classification or technical consensus changed since the cited source?
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This entry incorporates text from “Ceratophyllus diffinis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.