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Furcocercous cercariae (Trematoda) from freshwater snails in Central Finland

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A total of eight species of furcocercous cercariae of four families (Strigeidae, Diplostomidae, Schistosomatidae and Sanguinicolidae), were found in 2005 in Lake Konnevesi in Central Finland in four snail species (Valvata macrostoma, Lymnaea stagnalis, Bathyomphalus contortus and Planorbarius corneus). Australapatemon burti (Miller, 1923), Australapatemon sp., Cotylurus brevis Dubois et Rausch, 1950, Cercaria spinulosa Ginetsinskaya, 1959 and Sanguinicola sp. are new species records for Finland. Ichthyocotylurus variegatus (Creplin, 1825) and Bilharziella polonica (Kowalewski, 1895) were first recorded as cercariae in Finland. The most common cercariae were A. burti (prevalence 13.3%) and Diplostomum pseudospathaceum Niewiadomska, 1984 (10.0%). Our study represents the first host record of Valvata macrostoma for larval stages of Australapatemon sp. and Sanguinicola sp.

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  1. Biology Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Parasitology, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

    Anna Faltýnková

  2. W. Stefański Institute of Parasitology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Twarda 51/55, 00-818, Warszawa, Poland

    Katarzyna Niewiadomska

  3. Department of Zoology and Anthropology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Praça Gomes Teixeira, 4099-002, Porto/CIIMAR-CIIMAR Porto, Portugal

    Maria J. Santos

  4. Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35 (YA), Fin-40014, Finland

    Anna Faltýnková & E. Tellervo Valtonen

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Faltýnková, A., Niewiadomska, K., Santos, M.J. et al. Furcocercous cercariae (Trematoda) from freshwater snails in Central Finland. Acta Parasit. 52, 310–317 (2007). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11686-007-0050-z

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