Abstract
Platynosomum illiciens is a worldwide distributed biliary trematode with a heteroxenous life cycle involving three hosts: snails (Subulina octona) and terrestrial isopods (pillbugs) as the intermediate hosts, and domestic and wild mammals and birds as the definitive hosts. Despite being known as lizard-poisoning disease, reptiles are not obligatory hosts, but paratenic hosts involved in the transmission. The parasite found in domestic cats was considered a separate species (Platynosomum fastosum or Platynosomum concinnum) for decades, but morphological, experimental, and molecular studies showed that the same species, P.
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