NOBLE AND NOBLE (1976)
| Life Cycle of Schistosoma japonicum. The egg exits with the feces and emerges as a miracidium, which enters a snail where it maters into rediae. The rediae produce fork-tailed cercariae which burrow into the skin on the host. Mature flukes join in copula and remain in the circulatory system, mainly the portal system. Eggs laid in the capillary beds associated with the lower intestine and finally released via the feces after ulceration. |
| LITERATURE CITED Noble, E. R. and G. A. Noble. 1976. Parasitology, The Biology of Animal Parasites. Lea and Febiger. Philadelphia. |
| By Jack R. Holt. Last revised: 04/02/2012 |
