Parasite of the Day

The brown trout ( Salmo trutta ), a popular angling species, was introduced to the waters of New Zealand in 1867 and has become very well es...

Isospora lesouefi is a coccidian parasite which infects the Regent Honeyeater ( Xanthomyza phrygia ), an endangered species of bird found ...

When species of plants and animals are introduced to a new environment, this can often lead to some unexpected consequences. The parasite fo...

Today's parasite is about as Aussie as they come - Trypanosoma irwini - a blood parasite named in honour of the late Steve "Crocod...

The harmfulness of parasites to their host is not always so straightforward, there are often many factors which contribute to the pathology ...

Eustrongylides ignotus is an extremely pathogenic nematode which lives in the wall of the stomach (proventriculus) of herons and egrets and...

The parasite for today is found in a celebrity of sorts, the star of the film Jaws and its sequels - the famous Great White Shark . Unlike i...

Chondracanthus parvus is a parasitic copepod that parasitises the smooth-cheek sculpin, Eurymen hyrinus , by attaching itself to the inner s...

Regular readers of this blog will no doubt be familiar with the wonderfully weird and twisted morphology of parasitic copepods. However, th...

Speaking of co-extinctions, here's a contribution that I just got from Anya Gonchar . Columbicola extinctus is a louse that was specifi...