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There are four traditional classes of flatworms, the largely free-living turbellarians, the ectoparasitic monogeneans, and the endoparasitic trematodes and cestodes.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

Flea, flē, n. a well-known wingless insect of great agility, ectoparasitic on warm-blooded animals.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

The group Exosporidia was founded by Perrier to include a peculiar organism, ectoparasitic on Arthropods, to which the name of Amoebidium had been given by Cienkowsky.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various