Host Specificity of Austropeplea ollula (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) to Miracidial Infection with a Human Intestinal Fluke Neodiplostomum seoulense (Trematoda: Diplostomatidae) in Korea

Abstract

Three species of freshwater pulmonate snails of Lymnaeidae have been reported from Korea, Radix auricularia coreana, Austropeplea ollula, and Fossaria truncatula. Of these 3 species, only A. ollula was naturally infected with Neodiplostomum seoulense cercariae (prevalence, 0.3%). In experiments with the laboratory-reared snails, A. ollula was found to be susceptible to the N. seoulense miracidia (prevalence, 10%). This is the first report of A. ollula as the first molluscan intermediate host for N. seoulense in Korea.