The genus Chloromyxum (Myxozoa: Myxosporea: Bivalvulida) is defined as having ridged or smooth bivalvular myxospores containing four polar capsules, with/without caudal filaments. Currently containing more than 140 nominal species, this genus is reasonably speciose with myxospores of unique but heterogeneous morphology. Recent phylogenetic studies have demonstrated its polyphyletic nature. During our myxosporean survey of freshwater fish, a new coelozoic myxosporean species, Chloromyxum trilineatum n. sp., was detected in the gall bladder of the pale chub, Zacco platypus (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae), which originated from central Japan. Spores were subspherical, measuring 8.5-9.1 (8.8) μm in length, 7.6-8.2 (8.0) μm in width, and 6.8-7.8 (7.4) μm in thickness (n = 20). The valvular surface was smooth and three or four distinct ridges ran parallel to the suture line. Four almost equal polar capsules, 2.9-3.8 (3.3) μm in length and 1.6-2.4 (2.0) μm in width, assembled at the apical part of the spores. The partial nucleotide sequence of the 18S ribosomal RNA gene, 2014 bp in length, was closest to that of morphologically distinct Chloromyxum ellipticum, infecting the gall bladder of grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) in China with 96.99% (1673/1725) identity and three insertion/deletion (indel) sites, followed by Chloromyxum legeri, infecting the gall bladder of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) in the Czech Republic with 89.97% (1803/2004) identity and 14 indel sites. Other myxosporean species, including Chloromyxum spp. from the gall bladder or urinary system of freshwater and marine fish, were phylogenetically distant from the present species.

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Airlangga University Campus C Mulyorejo Surabaya 60115 Indonesia

Fish Diseases Laboratory State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology Institute of Hydrobiology Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan 430072 China

Laboratory of Parasitology Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Yamaguchi University 1677 1 Yoshida Yamaguchi 753 8515 Japan

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