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The Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells, are a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. [1] The shells of species in the family Vermetidae are extremely irregular, and do not resemble the average snail shell, hence the common name "worm shells" or "worm snails".
Treatment of worm infections is mostly limited to cats kept in human care. Most infections are rather harmless for cats, since a pathogen-host balance is established when the immune system is intact. However, because some of them can cause health disorders and some also pose a potential danger to humans, regular deworming for cats in the human ...
Leucochloridium paradoxum, the green-banded broodsac, is a parasitic flatworm (or helminth).Its intermediate hosts are land snails, usually of the genus Succinea.The pulsating, green broodsacs fill the eye stalks of the snail, thereby attracting predation by birds, the primary host.
The common name worm-snail (or worm snail, wormsnail, or worm shell) applies to a family and several species of gastropod: Vermetidae (family) Dendropoma corallinaceum; Thylacodes (genus) Thylacodes aotearoicus; Thylacodes natalensis; Thylacodes squamigerus; Thylacodes zelandicus; Vermicularia knorrii (common name Florida worm snail)
Capillaria feliscati (also known as Pearsonema feliscati), the cat bladder worm is a worm that affects cats, and seldom dogs. Its main final hosts are wild carnivores (foxes, wolves, coyotes, hedgehogs, etc.). It is a urinary tract nematode, though its occurrence is rare. C. feliscati are small, delicate, yellowish, thread-like worms. Adults ...
Toxocara cati, also known as the feline roundworm, is a parasite of cats and other felids. It is one of the most common nematodes of cats, infecting both wild and domestic felids worldwide. Adult worms are localised in the gut of the host. In adult cats, the infection – which is called toxocariasis – is usually asymptomatic. However ...
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Leucochloridium variae, the brown-banded broodsac, is a species of trematode whose life cycle involves the alternate parasitic infection of certain species of snail and bird. While there is no external evidence of the worm's existence within the bird host, the infection of the snail host is visible when its eye stalks become grotesquely ...