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Oysters killed by Trematode Parasites

Nature volume 197, page 616 (1963)Cite this article

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DURING laboratory breeding experiments with the New Zealand mud oyster, Ostrea lutaria Hutton, sectioned material showed specimens with gonads containing sporocysts of a digenetic trematode parasite. The sporocysts were tubular and branched as in the family Bucephalidae, and contained rediæ, but as cercariæ were not found the trematode has not yet been identified.

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MILLAR, R. Oysters killed by Trematode Parasites. Nature 197, 616 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197616b0

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