| a digenean metacercaria from the reef coral, porites compressa, experimentally identified as podocotyloides stenometra. | feeding porites compressa infected with a digenean metacercaria to the coral-feeding butterflyfish, chaetodon multicinctus, established that the metacercaria was podocotyloides stenometra. those and field examinations finding a prevalence of 100% and an average intensity of infection of 6.5 worms/fish in 28 c. multicinctus off kaneohe bay, oahu, hawaii, established this fish as a definitive host. plagioporus sp. of cheng and wong, 1974 is a synonym of p. stenometra. | 1998 | 9920324 |