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.
Endoparasites
(endo = within; parasites that live inside their hosts)- Plants
- * Rafflesia
- Animals
- * Acanthocephala
- * 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
- Fungi (such as ringworm)
- * Gymnosporangium and other rusts
- * Pyrenophora teres
- Protists (Protozoa)
- * Plasmodium (malarias)
- * Kinetoplastid protists of the Trypanosoma and Leishmania genera (sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmania)
- * 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)
- Fictional parasites
- *Lavos
- *Goa'uld
- *Yeerks
- *Babel fish
Ectoparasites
(ecto = outside; parasites that live on but not within their hosts, for example, attached to their skin)- Plants
- * Cuscuta
- * Mistletoe
- * Toothwort
- * The wood rose, Dactylanthus taylorii
- * Broomrape
- Animals
- * Hirudinea (some leeches)
- * Phthiraptera (Lice)
- * Siphonaptera (Fleas)
- * many Hippoboscoidea (Tsetse Flies, Sheep Keds, and relatives)
- * Acarina (Ticks, some mites)
- * Tantulocarida
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