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Elaeophora schneideri (arterial worm; carotid worm; cause of elaeophorosis, aka "filarial dermatitis" or "sorehead" in sheep; or "clear-eyed" blindness in elk) is a nematode which infests several mammalian hosts in North America. It is transmitted by horse-flies.
Metastrongyloidea are characterized as 2-cm-long, [9] slender, threadlike worms that reside in the lungs of the definitive host. [10] Angiostrongylus costaricensis is a closely related worm that causes intestinal angiostrongyliasis in Central and South America.
Dodecaceria pulchra, commonly known as the black boring worm, is a species of marine polychaete worm in the family Cirratulidae, native to South Africa. [1] Description
The common slow-worm (Anguis fragilis) is a species of legless lizard native to western Eurasia. It is also called a deaf adder, blindworm, or regionally, a long-cripple, steelworm, and hazelworm. The "blind" in blind-worm refers to the lizard's small eyes, similar to a blindsnake (although the slow-worm's
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Mansonella streptocerca (formerly Diptalonema streptocerca) is a filarial (arthropod-borne) nematode (roundworm) causing the disease streptocerciasis.It is a common parasite in the skin of humans in the rain forests of Africa, where it is thought to be a parasite of non-human primates, as well.
The nearly five-minute video consists entirely of close ups of the infestation and footage of the maggots being pulled from the ear. The video, posted earlier this year to YouTube, has more than ...
Onychophora / ɒ n ɪ ˈ k ɒ f ə r ə / (from Ancient Greek: ονυχής, onyches, "claws"; and φέρειν, pherein, "to carry"), commonly known as velvet worms (for their velvety texture and somewhat wormlike appearance) or more ambiguously as peripatus / p ə ˈ r ɪ p ə t ə s / (after the first described genus, Peripatus), is a phylum of elongate, soft-bodied, many-legged animals.