Unit 2 parasite identification

Haemonchus spp

Common name: Summer sores

Ostertagia spp (brown stomach worm)

Cooperia spp (small intestinal worm)

Trichostrongylus spp (hair worm)

Oesophagostomum spp (nodular worm)

Bunostomum spp (hook worms)

Strongyloides papillousus (bovine intestinal thread worm)

Trichuris ovis (ruminant whipworm)

Dictyocaulus spp (lung worm)

Muellaris capillaris (hair lungworm of sheep and goats)

Protostrongylus rufescens (red lungworm)

Habronema and Draschia spp (summer sores)

Trichostrongylus axei (stomach worm of horses and pigs)

Parascaris equorum (equine roundworm or equine ascarid)

Strongylus Vulgaris, Strongylus edentates, Strongylus equinus, & Strongylus equinus

Common name: Large and small strongyles

Strongyloides Westeri (Intestinal threadworm of horses

Oxyuris equi (Equine pinworm)

Dictyocaulus arnfieldi (The eqiune lungworm)

Onchocerca cervicalis  (Equine filarial parasite)                                                       

Thelazia lacrymalis (Eye worm of the horse)

Physocephalus sexalatus  (stomach worm of pigs)                                                         

Ascarops strongylina (stomach worm of pigs)

Hyostrongylus rubidus (Red stomach worm of swine)                                                                             

Ascaris suum (Swine ascarid or large intestinal worm of pigs)

Strongyloides ransomi  (Intestinal threadworm of swine)                                                         

Oesophagostomum dentatum (the nodular worm of pigs)

Trichuris suis (whipworm of pig)                                                                     

Metastrongylus elongates (The swine lungworm)

Stephanurus dentatus (Swine kidney worm)

Syphacia obvelata (mouse pinworm)                                        

Aspiculuris tetraptera (mouse pinworm)

Trichosomoides crassicauda  (bladderworm of rat)                                                                                                

Dentostomella translucida (pinworm of gerbil)

Paraspidodera uncinata (Ascarid of guinea pigs)

Obeliscoides cuniculi (stomach worm of rabbits)

Trichostrongylus calcaratus (small intestine worm of rabbits)                                                                          

Passalurus ambiguus (pinworms of rabbits)

Heterakis gallinarum (roundworm of turkey and peafowl)                                    

Capillaria spp of birds (hair or threadworms of birds)