List of parasitic organisms
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This is a list of organisms that are true parasites upon other organisms. For more information on this topic, see main article: Parasitism. For information on parasitoids, see main article: Parasitoid.
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[edit] Endoparasites
(endo = within; parasites that live inside their hosts)
[edit] Plants
[edit] Animals
- Acanthocephala
- Acarapis woodi
- Candiru (Vampire fish of Brazil)
- Cestoda (tapeworms)
- Clonorchis sinensis (the Chinese liver fluke)
- Cymothoa exigua
- Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm Disease)
- Enterobius vermicularis
- Oestridae (bot flies)
- Sacculina
- Strongyloides stercoralis
[edit] Fungi
- Ringworm
- Gymnosporangium and other rusts
- Pyrenophora teres
[edit] Protists (Protozoa)
- Balantidium coli (the only ciliated protozoan to infect humans)
- Giardia lamblia (the most common intestinal protozoan in the United States)
- Entamoeba histolytica (causes Amebiasis, common in developing countries)
- Kinetoplastid protists of the Trypanosoma and Leishmania genera (sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmania)
- Plasmodium (malarias)
[edit] Fictional endoparasites
- Babel fish
- Black Oil
- Facehuggers, the parasite laying stage in the lifecycle of xenomorphs
- The Flood, from the video game Halo
- Goa'uld
- Las Plagas
- Lavos
- Pierson's Puppeteers
- Killer parasitic worms from Slither.
- Trill (Star Trek)
- Yeerks
[edit] Ectoparasites
(ecto = outside; parasites that live on but not within their hosts, for example, attached to their skin)
[edit] Plants
[edit] Animals
- Acarina (Ticks, some mites)
- many Hippoboscoidea (Tsetse Flies, Sheep Keds, and relatives)
- Hirudinea (some leeches)
- Phthiraptera (Lice)
- Siphonaptera (Fleas)
- Tantulocarida
[edit] Fictional ectoparasites
- Brain slugs from Futurama.
- Headcrabs from the Half-Life series or similar brainsuckers from X-COM: Apocalypse, though these species can be considered parasitoids rather than parasites.
