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Overview of a sheep liver fluke

Legend:

1  mouth
2  oral sucker
3  pharynx
4  intestine
5  seminal vesicle + cirrus
6  ventral sucker/acetabulum
7 uterus
8  vitelline gland
9  vitelline duct
10  shell gland
11 testis

English name: sheep liver fluke
Scientific name: Fasciola hepatica
Familia: Fasciolidae
Classis: Trematoda
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Regnum: Animalia

Sheep liver fluke; adult stage of this parasite