LARVAL TREMATODES PARASITIZING LYMNAEA STAGNALIS APPRESSA SAY IN ONTARIO WITH EMPHASIS ON MULTIPLE INFECTIONS
- 1 August 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Zoology
- Vol. 41 (6) , 937-941
- https://doi.org/10.1139/z63-068
Abstract
A total of 1659 Lymnaea stagnalis appressa Say were examined for trematode infection. Of these, 571 shed one, 215 shed two, and 15 shed three species of cercariae. Most of the snails, including at least one with three other species, contained metacercariae of Cotylurus flabelliformis. It is suggested that infection of snails by one trematode species may increase or decrease the mollusc's susceptibility to subsequent infection by other trematode larvae.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- SCHISTOSOME CERCARIA IN ONTARIOCanadian Journal of Zoology, 1961
- On the Immunity of Snails Infested with the Sporocysts of the Strigeid, Cotylurus flabelliformis, to the Penetration of Its CercariaJournal of Parasitology, 1932