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Leucochloridium paradoxum, the green-banded broodsac, is a parasitic flatworm (or helminth). Its intermediate hosts are land snails, usually of the genus Succinea. The pulsating, green broodsacs fill the eye stalks of the snail, thereby attracting predation by birds, the primary host. These broodsacs visually imitate caterpillars, a prey of ...
Leucochloridium variae, the brown-banded broodsac, is a species of trematode whose life cycle involves the alternate parasitic infection of certain species of snail and bird. While there is no external evidence of the worm's existence within the bird host, the infection of the snail host is visible when its eye stalks become grotesquely ...
Leucochloridium is a genus of parasitic trematode worms in the order Diplostomida.It Is the sole genus in the family Leucochloridiidae. [2] Members of this genus cause pulsating swellings in the eye-stalks of snails (a phenomenon colloquially called a zombie snail), so as to attract the attention of predatory birds required in the parasites' lifecycle.
The snail excretes a juvenile form of the worm, which then has 24 hours to find a mammal host to infect or die, according to Dillman. The goal of the worm is to reach the intestines of a host ...
Schistosomiasis, also known as snail fever, bilharzia, and Katayama fever [1] [2] [9] is a disease caused by parasitic flatworms called schistosomes. [5] It affects the urinary tract or the intestines . [ 5 ]
Here's how this parasite works: It makes its way through the snail's body, and then traveling through its system.Once it transforms, it has 24 hours to find a mammal host like a dog or raccoon to ...
Some gastropods, for example the freshwater apple snails (family Ampullariidae) [7] and marine species of genus Strombus [8] can completely regenerate their eyes. The gastropods in both of these families have lens eyes. Morphological sequence of different types of multicellular eyes exemplified by gastropod eyes: [9]
Parasites burrowed into a Texas woman’s eye, causing her to go blind — and it’s because she went swimming in contact lenses. Brooklyn McCasland, 23, visited Alabama with friends in August ...