In Spain the liver fluke Dicrocoelium dendriticum (Rudolphi, 1819) (Digenea)is the species responsible for dicroceliosis, a common parasitic disease in ruminants. The life cycle of this trematode is known to involve several species of land molluscs and ants, as lst and 2nd intermediate hosts, respectively. The information concerning the development of the first larval stages of D. dendriticum in the molluscs is very scant...

1 page.-- Contributed to: VIth European Multicolloquium of Parasitology (The Hague, The Netherlands, Sep 7-11, 1992).

This study was supported by the "Junta de Castilla y León" (Project number 0701/89).

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