Anisakis sp. – Adult specimens

France, Pays Jean-François

Adult anisakids are 5 cm to 10 cm in length, and 1 mm to 3 mm in diameter. Definitive hosts are sea mammals (seals, whales, dolphins …). First intermediate hosts are plankton crustaceans, and 2nd intermediate hosts are fishes or squids. Man is an accidental non convenient host (dead-end parasitic disease).