Abstract
Studies were conducted to determine the ecology of the snail, Parafossarulus manchouricus, the seasonal variation of the snail population, and the infestation rates of these snails with the cercariae of digenetic trematodes, in the snail habitat of river Kumho, in Dongchon of Taegu city, in Kyungpook Province, Korea, from 1975 to 1979. The earliest time the snails were found was early in April every year. At that time the water temperature ranged from 13 to 14 degrees C. The population density of snails ranged from 2 to 8 per square meter. The highest population density of snails was encountered in late June and the water temperature was between 24 and 26 degrees C. The snails disappeared in early and mid-November, when the water temperature dropped to 10-13 degrees C. The average snail population in June was 115.9 per square meter in 1975 but in 1976 dropped abruptly to 30.5 and remained at approximately the same level in 1977. It then decreased at considerably lower rates, with the average of 18.7 in 1978 and 14.5 in 1979. The snails collected in the habitat were examined for the presence of cercariae of digenetic trematodes. Of these, four species, Clonorchis sinensis, Cyathocotyle orientalis, Exorchis oviformis, and Loxogenes liberum were found. The most frequently liberated cercaria was L. liberum 43.3 per cent, followed by E. oviformis 6.2 per cent and C. orientalis 1.5 per cent. The least frequently liberated was C. sinensis 0.1 per cent. In the monthly liberation rates for larval trematodes, the higher rates were observed in June, July and August every year, and the cercarial rates for Clonorchis sinensis, Cyathocotyle orientails and Exorchis oviformis demonstrate a fairly consistently fluctuating downward trend over the five-year period, except for Loxogenes liberum.
Summarizing the results, this study indicated that the population density of snails in the habitat and the infection of the snail with the cercariae of digenetic trematodes has decreased over the five-year period from 1975 to 1979.
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