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- noun Plural form of
cercaria .
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These animals, called cercariae, flicked their tails madly through the water.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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These animals, called cercariae, flicked their tails madly through the water.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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These animals, called cercariae, flicked their tails madly through the water.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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As few as 12 trematode larvae, known as cercariae, can kill or deform a single tadpole by burrowing into their limb regions and disrupting normal leg development, he said.
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The slime balls up around the cercariae, which the snail coughs up and leaves behind in the grass.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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When Steenstrup pulled the cercariae out of these shelters, he found that they had become flukes.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The cercariae emerged from the snail, promptly forming cysts on the snail.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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They moved through the snail, feeding and rearing within them yet another generation of flukes—the missile-tailed cercariae.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The cercariae explore the salt marsh to find their next host, the California killifish.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The eggs hatch, and the flukes castrate the snail, producing a couple of generations before cercariae come swimming out of their host.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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