Parasite of the Day

Australia has some of the most venomous snakes in the world, but the mouths of those reptiles are filled with more than just venomous fangs....

In 2016, a group of crested geckoes in captivity suddenly got sick soon after they were transferred to a terrarium that previously held som...

The Burmese python is the third largest snake in the world and it is a consummate hunter. It is equally at home swimming through water as i...

Sea turtles have a lot of different parasites infecting them - in a previous post I wrote about a recently published study on a parasitic c...

Today we are featuring a guest post by Dr Emily Uhrig , a postdoctoral research fellow currently at Linköping University, Sweden. She has wr...

Nematodes (roundworms) are common parasites which are found in all kinds of animals. The study featured today is a report on a species of ne...

The Atractidae is a family of nematodes (roundworms) that are found in the intestines or lungs of various vertebrate animals. Instead of pro...

Today, we look at a paper showing how data from DNA sequences can help resolve the evolutionary relationship of different parasite species, ...

Life isn't easy as a parasite with a complex life-cycle. In order to grow up and reproduce, you often need to make your way through the ...

Our parasite for today is a nematode called Pneunonema tiliquae and it is the only species within its genus. It is found in the lungs of the...

This is a metacercarium of a Clinostomum species that was found encysted in the fin of Perca flavescens , the yellow perch. The definitive...

I was on my way home from grocery shopping when I spotted something in the middle of the road near where I live. As I got closer I saw that ...

Closely related to a glossiphoniid leech we saw earlier , Placobdella papillifera is a pretty leech distributed in North American freshwate...

Balaenophilus manatorum is an ectoparasitic parasite of sea turtles and possibly manatees as well. Recently, specimens of this parasite we...

A few months ago, you met Capillaria hepatica , a nematode worm that sometimes infects humans, but mostly uses rodents as its host. Today...

Pentastomids are a group of parasites that primarily infect the respiratory tracts of reptiles and amphibians, with a few species that infec...

Parasitic nematodes in the genus Trichinella are commonly found in endothermic (warm-blooded) animals. The most common species, Trichinella...

Acanthostomum americanum is a digenean trematode found in the intestine of Morelet's crocodile ( Crocodylus moreletii ) from Yucatan, M...

There are five species of hemogregarine apicomplexan blood parasites (distant relatives of malaria parasites) that have been described from ...

Today's parasite is a schistosome blood fluke which has been described from the Australian freshwater crocodile ( Crocodylus johnstoni )...