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metacercaria

[¦med·ə·sər′kar·ē·ə]
(invertebrate zoology)
Encysted cercaria of digenetic trematodes; the infective form.
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Only one metacercaria of Clinostomum complanatum was found in a single host.
Ecology of endoparasites of the fluvial stingray Potamotrygon falkneri (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae) from the upper Parana River floodplain, Brazil/Ecologia de endoparasitos da raia fluvial Potamotrygon falkneri (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae) da planicie de inundacao do alto rio Parana, Brasil
A new strigeid metacercaria, Neascus rhinichthysi, n.
Metacercarias tipo Neascus em Geophagus brasiliensis (Perciformes: Cichlidae) do rio do Peixe, Juiz de Fora, Brasil
[5], 36 of adult by Sommerville [16] and 20 in the metacercaria of the present study; and did not refer to the precercarial stages.
Estudios del ciclo de vida de Haplorchis pumilio (Loos, 1896) (trematoda: heterophyidae) en Venezuela
Oral sucker and acetabulum of both metacercaria and the adults of M.
A new species of Microphallus (Trematoda: Microphallidae) from Venezuela
Helminth Humboldt Santa Clara Host site N P A N P Trematoda Alaria sp.(metacercaria) -- -- -- 3 5 cysts in skeletal muscle Clinostomum sp.
Persistence of the Nematode, Oswaldocruzia pipiens (Molineidae), in the Pacific Treefrog, Hyla regilla (Hylidae), from California
([dagger]) Unidentified digenean metacercaria. ([double dagger]) Psilostomatidae (Sphaeridiotrenna sp.?).
Exotic molluscs in the Great Lakes host epizootically important trematodes
Tagelusplebeius was found housing two ciliate species without apparent host reaction and acting as first intermediate host for two digenetic trematode species of the families Fellodistomidae and Gymnophallidae, by hosting sporocysts (mainly in gonad and digestive gland that results in the replacement of host tissues) and as second intermediate host by housing a gymnophallid metacercaria. Likewise, T.
Parasites of the stout razor clam Tagelus plebeius (Psammobiidae) from the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean
Ultraestructura del tegumento de la metacercaria, juvenil y adulto de Clinostomun complanatum (Trema toda: Clinostomidae).
Una vision de la biologia tropical a traves del microscopio electronico
Here the cercaria transform into another life stage called metacercaria. Unlike the metacercaria left behind in the abdomen, these never become infective.
Madness. (Another Dimension)
KEY WORDS: gymnophallus, histopathology, Modiolus barbatus, sporocyst, metacercaria
Histopathology of Gymnophallus sp. sporocysts in the edible mytilid, Modiolus barbatus
Metacercaria de Echinochasmus zubedakhaname, parasito de Cichlasoma urophtalmus en Celestun, Yucatan, Mexico.
Chromosomes of Cichlasoma istlanum (Perdformes: Cichlidae) and karyotype comparison of two presumed subspecies
Trematodes invaded the gonadal follicles and different stages of maturation, from sporocysts containing germ balls and cercaria to metacercaria, could be observed (Fig.
Reproduction and pathology of blue mussels, Mytilus edulis (L.) in an experimental longline in Long Island Sound, Connecticut

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