Alaria (flatworm)
''Alaria'' is a genus of flatworms, or Trematoda, trematodes, in the Family (biology), family Diplostomidae. ''Alaria'' is a genus of small parasitic worm about 2–6 mm long and approximately 2 mm wide. It is usually found in the small intestine of dogs, cats, or wild carnivores. It is most commonly found in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The body consists of two shaped parts: the anterior, which is flat, and the posterior, which is conical to cylindrical. Species of ''Alaria'' have two suckers, the oral and the ventral. They have only one opening, the mouth. They are hermaphroditic. Life cycle Species of ''Alaria'' have complex indirect life cycles. There are two intermediate hosts involved, but there can also be paretic hosts, such as snakes, mice, birds, and humans. The eggs, which are oval, operculated, and light brown, are released from adult ''Alaria'' and excreted from the final host's faeces and hatched into miracidium that infect the snail host, in which th ...
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Alaria Arisaemoides
Alaria may refer to: * Alaria (alga), ''Alaria'' (alga), a brown alga genus in the family Alariaceae * Alaria (flatworm), ''Alaria'' (flatworm), a trematode genus in the family Diplostomatidae {{Genus disambiguation ...
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