| larval stages of brachylaima fuscatum in the terrestrial snail limicolaria aurora from southern nigeria. | of 150 specimens of the gastropod snail limicolaria aurora examined from the edo and delta states of nigeria, 63.4% were infected with larval digeneans comprising mother sporocysts (12.1%) daughter sporocysts (20.4%) cercariae (43.1%) and metacercariae (24.5%). attempts to experimentally infect three 14-day-old chicks (gallus domesticus) and two laboratory-bred 4-month-old mice (mus musculus) by oral feeding and peritoneal injection with cercariae were negative, although experimental infections ... | 2003 | 12590656 |