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What is the scientific name of a hookworm?
There are many different species of hookworm. The scientific name for the genera that contain hookworms are necator and ancylostoma.
Does the hookworm cause anemia?
Yes, hookworm is the name for two species of worms: Ancylostoma Duodenale and Necator Americanus. They produce anemia because they suck blood from the intestinal mucosa and damage it. The result is a loss of protein and iron.
What symmetry is the hookworm in?
Is a hookworm radial
What kind of parasite hookworm?
Hookworm is endoparasites. From: Micol Colico :)
What is the name of the Worms or parasites that enter through your feet and feed on your lungs and heart?
Hookworm
How do you use the word hookworm in a sentence?
The doctor administered a hookworm prevention shot.
How do hookworm larvae cause an itch?
Itching also may be caused when any of the family of hookworm larvae penetrate the skin. This includes swimmer's itch and creeping eruption caused by cat or dog hookworm, and ground itch caused by the "true" hookworm.
Is hookworm parasite?
Yes, a hookworm is a parasite that sucks blood via the tissue of an intestine it infects.
Which phylum of worms has a false coelom and a complete digestive tract?
aschelminthes
Is hookworm endoparasites?
yes
What is the phylum of the hookworm?
Nematoda
Where a hookworm lives?
the intestines
