著者

Yamada Seitaro Fukumoto Shin-ichiro

出版者

Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University

雑誌

Japanese Journal of Vetrinary Research (ISSN:00471917)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.59, no.2, pp.101-104, 2011-08

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Green- or brown-striped trematode sporocyst broodsacs typical of Leucochloridium infecting the ocular tentacles of a land snail, Succinea lauta, were collected in Abashiri, Hokkaido in northern Japan (N43° 59´, E144° 14´) in June of 2000 and 2001. The metacercariae isolated from the sporocyst broodsac were morphologically identified as Leucochloridium spp. (Leucoclhoridiidae Poche). This report is the first to describe evidential specimens of the sporocyst broodsac of the genus Leucochloridium Carus, 1835, infecting the intermediate host in Japan, suggesting that Leucochloridium spp. completes Their life cycle in Hokkaido, Japan.