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When the coracidium is ingested by a copepod crustacean it penetrates their gut wall and develops into a procercoid.
Platyhelminthes 2007
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Species of Diphyllobothrium possess egg capsules which are deposited with the faeces in water and a ciliated, free swimming coracidium bearing six small hooks, hatches in 10 days.
Platyhelminthes 2007
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