Relative to its size, it is highly fecund (3471071 eggs per female), and the ovaries of gravid females made up 44% of their total body weight, on average.
Tadpoles then become infected by ingestion of such encysted metacercariae or inhalation of free cercariae and attach onto the large intestine and become gravid.
Ovulating and gravid females are rarely ever caught, suggesting that during this period they may stop feeding or segregate themselves from others of their species.
