Two New Families and a New Species of Myxosporeans (Myxozoa, Myxosporea) from the Mediterranean and Black Sea Fishes

Yurakhno V. M.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10058-011-0036-z

Abstract

Descriptions of two new families – Polysporoplasmidae fam. n. (Syn. Sphaerosporidae Davis, 1917 in Sitja-Bobadilla, Alvarez-Pellitero, 1995) and Gadimyxidae fam. n. (syn. Parvicapsulidae Schulman, 1953 in Koie et al., 2007), and one new species of myxosporeans – Gadimyxa ovale sp. n. – parasites of fishes of the Mediterranean and the Black Seas are presented. Species of the genus Gadimyxa is found for the first time in the Black Sea.

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