coracidium

Epidemiology

• ciliated 1st stage aquatic embryo of cestodes
• within the ciliated embryo, it is a hooked larva that develops in an intermediate host (generally an aquatic crustacean) into the next larval stage, the procercoid

More general terms

• larva

Additional terms

• Cestoda (tapeworm)
• Diphyllobothrium (fish tapeworm)