Sandworm
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Sandworm may refer to:
Living animals (smallish worms of sandy substrate):
- Arenicola marina (Lugworm), called "sandworm" in the UK
- Alitta virens, formerly Nereis virens (King Ragworm), called "sandworm" in the US
- Hookworm larvae which cause cutaneous larva migrans, called "sandworms" in the southern US
- The Mongolian death worm is said to inhabit the Gobi Desert.
- The Sumerian chthonic deity Ker is a great burrowing serpent or worm whose digestive track is also a doorway to The Underworld.
Fictional animals (huge desert creatures): "Sandworms", sometimes referred to by other names specific to a given work of fiction, are a somewhat common semi-legendary beast that lurks under the desert sand not unlike a man-eating shark lurking beneath the waves of a body of water.
- Sandworm (Dune), in films and novels
- Sandworms, creatures featured in the film Beetlejuice and more heavily in its spin-off TV series
- The Graboids of the Tremors (film) franchise are classic sandworms in their first two larval stages.
- Several worm-like creatures in Dungeons & Dragons grow to gargantuan size and have in their various incarnations over the many editions of and supplements to the game resembled traditional sandworms to some degree.
- The purple worm
- The Chthonians of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
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