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  • 51Velvet worm — Taxobox name = Onychophora fossil range = Cambrian – Recent image width = 250px image caption = Velvet worm regnum = Animalia phylum = Onychophora phylum authority = Grube, 1853 subdivision ranks = Extant families subdivision = Peripatidae… …

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  • 52Parasitic worm — See also Parasitic worm (disambiguation) Parasitic worms or helminths are a division of eukaroytic parasites that, unlike external parasites such as lice and fleas, live inside their host.cite journal |author=Maizels RM, Yazdanbakhsh M… …

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  • 53Acorn worm — Taxobox name = Enteropneusta regnum = Animalia phylum = Hemichordata classis = Enteropneusta subdivision ranks = Families subdivision = Harrimaniidae Protoglossidae Ptychoderidae Saxipendiidae Spengelidae Torquaratoridae The Acorn worms or… …

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  • 54WANK (computer worm) — The WANK Worm was a computer worm that attacked DEC VMS computers in 1989 over the DECnet.Political messageThe WANK worm had a distinct political message attached, and it was the first major worm to have a political message.Dreyfus, Suelette.… …

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  • 55Lagarfljóts Worm — The Lagarfljótsormur, Lagarfljotsormurinn, Lagarfljót worm, (or simply Iceland Worm Monster) is an Icelandic lake cryptid. [http://www.nat.is/travelguideeng/plofin river lagarfljot.htm] The worm is purportedly located in Lagarfljót Lake, a… …

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  • 56Lambton Worm, the —    Lambton Castle (Co. Durham) is the setting for a lively tale of dragon slaying which exists in two main forms: in a jocular folk song probably dating from the 19th century, and in a pamphlet of about 1875 which gives a more detailed but… …

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  • 57Parasitic worm (disambiguation) — Parasitic worm may refer to:*Helminth collectively describes the unrelated worm like groups platyhelminthes and nematoda *Platyhelminthes, or flatworms the phyla which contains the parasitic tapeworms and flukes *Nematoda, or roundworms the most… …

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  • 58anchor worm — a copepod crustacean parasite of the genus Lernaea found on fish gills. No intermediate host. Worm like in shape and often quite large and obvious, forming ulcers at the attachment point, and inducing scratching and flashing through irritation.… …

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  • 59bone-eating snot flower worm — noun a worm like creature, Osedax mucofloris, that feeds on the carcasses of minke whales in the North Sea …

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  • 60acorn worm — noun a burrowing worm like marine animal with a proboscis, a collar, and a long trunk with gill slits. [Class Enteropneusta.] …

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