This nasty looking creature is Nippostrongylus brasiliensis, a parasitic worm similar to the human hookworm. The 40x image was submitted by J. Claire Hoving from the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine of the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
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