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WHILE engaged in researches on larval trematodes in The Netherlands, I collected specimens of the snail Paludina vivipara Lm. from a dried-up waterway in the vicinity of Houten (Province of Utrecht). In the course of routine examination, no cercariæ having been given off by the snails under laboratory conditions, they were dissected and large numbers of rediæ found which proved, by their structure and measurements, to be the larval stage of an amphistome. This is in itself unusual as P. vivipara is not recorded as acting as intermediate host for this group of trematodes.
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HONER, M. Diplodiscus Species Parasitic in the Snail Paludina vivipara Lm.. Nature 187, 431–432 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/187431a0
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