Fasciola gigantica causes fluke cirrhosis or liver rot, fascioliasis or fascioliosis or clay pipe cirrhosis, pipe stem liver or gall stone formation.
- Hosts are cattle buffalo, sheep, goat and also in man.
- Intermediate host is Aquatic snail.
- Leaf shaped large size. 25 – 75 mm in length, 12 mm in breadth and broader anteriorly than posteriorly.
- Anterior cone is smaller.
- They have indistinct shoulder (not so prominent).
- Cuticle have spine.
- The body is more transparent.
- The oral and ventral suckers are present.
- The ventral sucker situated at the level of shoulder and is larger than oral sucker.
- The intestinal caeca is branched.
- Two follicular branched testes placed in the middle region.
- Single branched ovary with a coiled uterus lies anterior to the testes.
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