The ornamental fish trade provides a pathway for the global translocation of aquatic parasites. Myxozoa is comprised highly specialized metazoan parasites hosts with wide host range. Interest in group has intensified along development aquaculture due to emergent pathogenic myxozoan species both freshwater and marine environments. However, little known on diversity trade. We examined 630 importe...

The Myxozoa Grassé, 1970 infecting fish is an important pathogenic group having a worldwide distribution. Among these parasites the monotypic genus Meglitschia Kovaleva, 1988 has been reported infecting the gallbladder (Gb) of a marine fish from the New Zealand fauna [1,2] and a freshwater fish from Brazil, collected in a tributary of Amazon River [3]. The teleostean host (Eugerres brasilianus)...

In Tunisia, mugilid and soleid fish species are among the most important resources of the Tunisian lagoons. These fish are of great economic value and they are highly valued for their flesh. Some species of mullet from Tunisian waters, especially Mugil cephalus and Liza ramada, have been found to be infected with several myxosporean species, all of which belonging to the genus Myxobolus Bütschl...