The endoparasites found in shrew-moles consist of twenty species of coccidian protozoans, at least five species of nematode, two species of trematode, and two species of acanthocephalan.
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Ecto-and endoparasites have been reported to include trematodes, cestodes, nematodes, acanthocephalans, lice ( Anoplura ), fleas ( Siphonaptera ), Diptera, and ticks and mites ( Acari ).
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""'Pomphorhynchus laevis " "'is a parasitic acanthocephalan worm that can influence the reaction of its intermediate host, the freshwater amphipod " Gammarus pulex ", to the smell of potential predators like perch, " Perca fluviatilis ".
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In the summer of 1947 a single sepcimen of Canada warbler from Virgiinia ( and one specimen of another warbler from Georgia _ were found to be hosts of a new species of acanthocephalan worm, which was named " Apororynchus amphistomi, " the third species of that genus and the first in North America.
