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Heteroxenous development, or heteroxeny, characterizes a parasite whose development involves several host species.[1]
When there are two or three hosts, the development cycle is named diheteroxenous or triheteroxenous, respectively. More ambiguously, these terms are sometimes synonymized as dixenous or trixenous.[1]
References
- ^ a b Odening, Klaus (1976-01-20). "Conception and terminology of hosts in parasitology". In Dawes, Ben (ed.). Advances in Parasitology. Vol. 14. Academic Press. pp. 24–25. ISBN 978-0-08-058060-9.