| the first record of centrocestus formosanus (nishigori, 1924) (digenea: heterophyidae) in egypt. | the life cycle of centrocestus formosanus (digenea: heterophyidae) was to be successfully completed in the laboratory in the present study. hundreds of the thiarid snail, melanoides tuberculata, were collected from the main water course mansouriya canal, giza governorate, egypt. the snails were individually exposed to artificial light to determine possible infection with trematode larvae. fifteen snails were found infected with opthalmopleurolophocercous cercariae (infection index of 1.97). thes ... | 2016 | 27328972 |