Miracidium is the larval stage of

Tapeworm

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Roundworm

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Pinworm

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Liver fluke

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Solution

The correct option is D Liver fluke
Miracidium is the free swimming larva of trematode parasite (liver fluke) which emerges from an egg and penetrates the body of a snail host which is followed by development into a mother sporocyst and by production of number of offspring of successive larval generations.
Therefore, the correct answer is option D.

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