Sandworm
Appearance
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Sandworm may refer to:
Living animals
[edit]- 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
Fictional animals
[edit]- Sandworm (Dune), from Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction novel Dune and its derivative works.
- When Barbara and Adam Maitland die, they come across a sandworm creature that lives on the desert of Saturn in the 1988 Tim Burton film Beetlejuice.
Other
[edit]- Sandworm (installation), an environmental art installation in the Wenduine Beach, Belgium created for the Beaufort Triennial of Contemporary Art
- Mongolian death worm, said to inhabit the Gobi Desert
- Sandworm, a hacker group within the GRU (G.U.), a foreign military intelligence agency of the Russian Federation
- Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers (2019), a book about the group by Andy Greenberg