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Date & Time : 29, April 2024 08:16
Schistosoma
- Common name : liver fluke
- Habit and Habitat : lives in hepatic portal system and mesenteric vessesls of man.
- Body form and colour : slender and pink
- Sexual dimorphism : present, female is longer than male and lives permanently in gynecophoric canals.
- Gynecophoric canals : formed by folding of ventral body wall.
- Suckers : oral and ventral suckers present in both male and female.
- Digestive system : Simple,has oesophagus and intestine(forked).
- Reproductive system : Male has testes(4-5),vasadeferens and seminal vesicle. Female has ovary(elongated),oviduct and uterus.
- Intermediate host : Snails
- Disease caused : Schistosomiasis
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