EditorialAscaris brevicaudata, Print, Image showing life cycle inside and outside of the human body of one fairly well described helminth: Ascaris lumbricoides. Ascaris is a genus of parasitic nematode worms known as the "small intestinal roundworms.
EditorialNorthern red-sided opossum or Guianan short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis brevicaudata (Touan of Buffon, Didelphis brachyura). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1825.