ectoparasite in English

noun
1
a parasite, such as a flea, that lives on the outside of its host.
Several ectoparasite species often infect the same nest, and host responses against one parasite could affect the fitness of other ectoparasites and modify ectoparasite communities.
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1. Basophils occur in unusually high numbers where there is an ectoparasite infection such as a tick implantation

2. Rainwater fish, the client species, were found to carry the trematode ectoparasite,Gyrodactylus, which were apparently Browzed by the stickleback, the cleaner species

3. In conclusion, epidemiology is the most parsimonious explanation of the order that may be observed in ectoparasite Assemblages. From the Cambridge English Corpus They can also be merely stochastic Assemblages …

4. In this study, we examined whether the expression of breeding coloration in free-ranging adult European Green Lizards (Lacerta viridis (Laurenti, 1768)) is linked with infestation by their common ectoparasite Ixodes ricinus (L., 1758) (Acari:

5. Sucking louse, (suborder Anoplura), any of some 500 species of small, wingless, flat lice (order Phthiraptera) that have piercing and sucking mouthparts and live on blood and tissue fluids of mammals as an ectoparasite (external parasite)