| developmental stages of fish blood flukes, cardicola forsteri and cardicola opisthorchis (trematoda: aporocotylidae), in their polychaete intermediate hosts collected at pacific bluefin tuna culture sites in japan. | farming of pacific bluefin tuna (pbt), thunnus orientalis, is a rapidly growing industry in japan. aporocotylid blood flukes of the genus cardicola comprising c. orientalis, c. opisthorchis and c. forsteri are parasites of economic importance for pbt farming. recently, terebellid polychaetes have been identified as the intermediate hosts for all these parasites. we collected infected polychaetes, terebella sp., the intermediate host of c. opisthorchis, from ropes and floats attached to tuna cage ... | 2017 | 27835838 |