Abstract
The authors conducted morphological and epidemiological studies of endoparasites in Japanese mammalians. Metagonimus yokokawai and Spirometra erinaceieuropaei were obtained from the smallintestines of masked plam civets, Paguma larvata captured near Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture and Kannami, Tagatagun, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. This report states that Paguma larvata is a new final host for Metagonimus yokogawai and Spirometra erinaceieuropaei.