Baracktrema obamai is a species of blood fluke, found in Malaysian freshwater turtles.
It was discovered in 2015 by a team of American parasitologists led by Thomas R. Platt, and named after U.S. President Barack Obama.
Baracktrema has a thread-like, cylindrical, body by being 30 to 50 times longer than it is wide.
Baracktrema is believed to, alternatively or in addition to using the circulatory system, directly lay eggs in the lumen of the alveoli.
With either mechanism, travel from the alveoli to the external environment is unknown, but suspected to be due to the combination of coughing and the bronchial escalator.