Roundworms (Nematoda)
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 30 roundworm (Nematoda) specimens. These date from 1900 to 1996. This collection contains about 20 specimens in spirit and several microscope slides of lungworms from Soay sheep. Almost all of these specimens are parasitic, coming from a wide range of animals. Many were collected from vertebrate specimens that came into Glasgow Museums’ collections, including a rhea, porpoise, python, Soay sheep, pig and horse. Nematodes, or ‘roundworms’ as they are commonly known, have around 20,000 known species, making them among the most abundant of all animals. There are both free-living and parasitic species, which are both unsegmented, round in cross section and tapered at both ends.
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