Djur - Maskar

a small soft-bodied animal with an elongated body that lacks limbs and eyes

mask

a sandworm that lives near the sea and is used as bait for fishing

sandmask, sjömask

a terrestrial invertebrate of the annelid family that moves through the soil and feeds on organic matter

daggmask, jordmask

an arthropod with many pairs of legs and a pair of poisonous fangs

skolopender

a simple worm with a soft unsegmented body that is flat, some types of which are parasitic

plattmask, platta maskar

any arthropod of the diplopod family with a segmented body and many pairs of legs

tusendel, milipede

a parasitic flatworm that is shaped like a ribbon and lives in the intestines of mammals

bandmask, cestod

a long tiny nematode that infests the intestines, especially rectum, of mammals

trådmask, trådmask

a parasitic or predatory worm of the annelid family that lives in freshwaters and drinks blood by attaching itself to its prey

igg, leech

any long and cylindrical worm with a segmented body that is either parasitic or free-living

nematod, cylindrisk mask

a long and small wormlike larva of a moth or butterfly that has many limbs

larv, fjärilslarv

the larvae of a beetle that feed on wood and make a lot of holes in it

trämal, trämott

a parasitic roundworm with strong hooks or plates that attaches to an animal or a human's intestines and causes an infection or disease

hakmask, hookworm

a worm of the nematode family that is parasitic and lives in the intestines of humans or animals

rundmask, nematod

any parasitic worm of the trematode family that invades the liver of a mammal

levermask, trematod i lever

a type of insect, the female of which emits light through bioluminescence, especially a firefly

glowworm, eldflugor