tongue worms

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• Flamingo tongue snail — Cyphoma gibbosum feeding on a soft coral. The animal s siphon is visible at the top, the tip of the tail is visible at the bottom. A large feeding scar is visible as a brown stripe on the coral. Scientific classi …   Wikipedia

• Pentastomida — Taxobox name = Tongue worms image width = 200px image caption = Linguatula taenioides , a pentastomid parasite of sheep regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda subphylum = Crustacea classis = Maxillopoda subclassis = Pentastomida subclassis… …   Wikipedia

• Worm — A worm is a common name given to a diverse group of invertebrate animals that have a long, soft body and no legs. There are hundreds of thousands of species of worms, 2,700 of these are earthworms. Animals which are commonly called worms include… …   Wikipedia

• Crustacean — Crustacea Temporal range: 511–0 Ma …   Wikipedia

• Pentastomida — The tongue worms, a group of parasitic wormlike animals considered to form a distinct phylum thought to be descended from primitive arthropods, though modified by parasitism to form elongate, pseudosegmented, wormlike organisms with two to three… …   Medical dictionary

• Phylum — For other uses, see Phyla …   Wikipedia

• Linguatula — A genus of endoparasitic bloodsucking arthropods (family Linguatulidae, class Pentastomida), commonly known as tongue worms; once thought to be degenerate Acarina, but now generally considered to be a small but distinctive early offshoot of the… …   Medical dictionary

• Porocephalus — A genus of tongue worms of the family Porocephalidae, of which the adult worms or larvae cause porocephaliasis in a number of animal species, including humans. [G. poros, pore, + kephale, head] …   Medical dictionary

• velvet worm — ▪ invertebrate phylum  any of about 70 wormlike species of ancient, terrestrial invertebrates with short, thick legs and a dry, velveteen body. Onychophorans range in size from 14 to 150 mm (about 0.6 to 6 inches) and are found in rainforests.… …   Universalium

• Maxillopoda — Temporal range: Mid Cambrian–Recent …   Wikipedia

• halzoun — Local name of a buccopharyngeal infection occurring in Lebanon, probably caused by pentastomid larvae of the dog tongue worm, Linguatula serrata, which wander into the throat of the human host after ingestion of infected raw sheep, or goat liver… …   Medical dictionary