| centrocestus formosanus (trematoda: heterophyidae) in melanoides tuberculata (gastropoda: thiaridae) from vila do abraão, ilha grande, rio de janeiro, brazil. | pleurolophocercous cercariae found in the invasive gastropod melanoides tuberculata (müller, 1774) collected in a stream of the vila do abraão, ilha grande, angra dos reis, rio de janeiro, brazil were used for experimental infection that enabled the identification of the heterophyid trematode centrocestus formosanus (nishigori, 1924). the parasite has been found in the locality since 2007, after two years of the introduction of m. tuberculata. recently, from a sample of 483 specimens collected i ... | 2016 | 27599102 |