“…The ticks are believed to have arrived on the islands with livestock importation as control of external parasites from continental Ecuador was not implemented (Jiménez‐Uzcátegui, Carrión, Zabala, Buitrón, & Milstead, ). Moreover, a study showed the presence of tick‐borne haemoparasites in cats and dogs of the Galapagos Islands, namely Bartonella henselae, Bartonella clarridgeae, Bartonella elizabethae and Anaplasma platys (Diaz et al., ; Levy et al., ).…”