Ascaris lumbricoides
"A. lumbricoides" was originally called "Lumbricus teres" and was first described in detail by Edward Tyson in 1683. The genus "Ascaris" was originally described as the genus for "Ascaris lumbricoides" by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The morphologically similar "Ascaris suum" was described from pigs by Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1782.