lophocercous
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- Having a tail structure with lateral lobes or extensions.
- 1943, Charles Franklin Craig, Ernest Carroll Faust, Clinical Parasitology, page 398:
- A first sporocyst generation and two reiae generations are then developed, and, finally, there erupt from the snail characteristic lophocercous ( i.e., keeled) cercaria ( Fig . 173 ) , with pigmented eye-spots, abundant penetration glands and a distinctive anterior end, having an antero-ventral mouth and a pair of clustered openings for the penetration gland.