Sentence examples for tongue worm from inspiring English sources
"Most modern tongue worms infect vertebrates - including humans - but what we have is a tongue worm that infested an invertebrate [marine] animal.
He told BBC News: "This triple whammy of finding a fossilised parasite with its host, the first fossilised adult pentastomid (or tongue worm), and [finding a new host for the parasite] is enough to make any self-respecting palaeontologist or parasitologist salivate".
In one study, blue wildebeest were found to be hosts to thirteen species of nematode, one trematode, larvae of five oestrid flies, three species of lice, seven ixodid tick species, one mite and the larvae of a tongue worm.
Linguatula serrata, the so-called tongue worm, is a worm-like, bloodsucking parasite belonging to the Pentastomida group.
The girl also had cats and a turtle, but cats are not primary hosts and turtles are never hosts for the life cycle of the L. serrata tongue worm (14 ).
Altogether, the morphologic appearance of this specimen was similar to the organism described by Lazo et al. (8 ) and could thus be identified as a third instar larva of L. serrata tongue worm.
These are larval stages of Upper Cambrian pentastomids, tongue worms, which today are parasites of various tetrapods.
Phylum Onychophora is considered similar to two other primitive groups, the tongue worms (see pentastomid) and the water bears (see tardigrade).
The new species, which has been named Invavita piratica (meaning "ancient intruder" and "piracy"), belongs to a group of parasites known as tongue worms.
Most crustaceans are free-living aquatic animals, but some are terrestrial (e.g. woodlice), some are parasitic (e.g. Rhizocephala, fish lice, tongue worms) and some are sessile (e.g. barnacles).
Most of the major groups of crustaceans appear in the fossil record before the end of the Cambrian, namely the Branchiopoda, Maxillopoda (including barnacles and tongue worms) and Malacostraca; there is some debate as to whether or not Cambrian animals assigned to Ostracoda are truly ostracods, which would otherwise start in the Ordovician.
