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Pinworm
Related Category: Zoology: Invertebrates
roundworm, Enterobius vermicularis, worldwide in distribution and the most common source of worm infestation of humans in the United States. Children are more commonly infested than adults.
Some of these parasites include round worms, pinworms, flatworms, and tapeworms. They will rob the nutrients from your iguana.
Nematodes commonly parasitic on humans include whipworms, hookworms, pinworms, ascarids, and filarids.
These include the common roundworms, which probably infest more than half the world's humans; hookworms; trichina, the worms that cause trichinosis; pinworms, another extremely common parasite, even in the United States, ...
 See also: Fluke, Trematode, Liver Fluke, Roundworm, Flatworm
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