Stage of a Parasite Larva (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Barbara

Stage of a Parasite Larva

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This free-swimming stage of a parasite larva, a trematode cercaria, leaves an infected snail to encyst on a fish brain. View is 0.267 mm across.

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Courtesy Todd Huspeni, University of California, Santa Barbara

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