A new myxosporean Myxobolus cultus n. sp. was found in experimentally infected goldfish Carassius auratus exposed to actinosporean spores from the oligochaete Branchiura sowerbyi (Tubificidae). At 2-4 ...

Myxobolus squamalis is a myxozoan skin parasite first reported from rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus my kiss). Identification of the parasite based on myxospore morphology is unreliable because M.