Prevot G, Bartoli P
Ann Parasitol Hum Comp. 1978 Nov-Dec;53(6):561-75. doi: 10.1051/parasite/1978536561.
This paper deals with life-cycle of Renicola lari J. Timon-David, 1933. Description and illustration are given. Sporocyst development occurs inside the visceral mass of Cerithium mediterraneum and C. Rupestre (Mollusca Prosobranchia). Cercariae are planktonic; they are swallowed up by the second intermediate host, Atherina hepsetus and A. boyeri (Teleostean fishes). Cercariae perforate intestine wall. Metacercariae are encysted in liver. Adult flukes have been recovered in kidneys of uninfected Larus argentatus and L. ridibundus after exerimental contamination with naturally infected fishes. Cercariae of Renicola lari differ from Plagiorchid type cercariae by the following characters : stylet lacking ; very large excretory bladder ; they develop into metacercariae in fishes. Cercariae of R. lari seem to Rhodometope type cercariae ; they have the same excretory bladder. Cercariae of R. lari differ from Rhodometope cercariae in lacking fins on their tail.
