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Myxobolus pelecicola Voronin et Dudin 2015 is a junior synonym of Myxobolus ladogensis Rumyantsev et Schulman 1997 (Myxosporea: Myxobolidae) infecting the skeletal muscle of sichel Pelecus cultratus (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae) in Russia

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Myxobolus pelecicola Voronin et Dudin, 2015 was recently described from the skeletal musculature of sichel Pelecus cultratus. However, another species, Myxobolus ladogensis Rumyantsev et Schulman, 1997, was described previously from the same host, displaying identical tissue localization and spore morphology as in M. pelecicola. Unfortunately, M. ladogensis was overlooked when M. pelecicola was described, resulting in the superfluous description of the latter species, which, according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, is a junior synonym of M. ladogensis. The description of M. ladogensis is supplemented with SSU rDNA sequence analysis supporting the conspecificity with M. pelecicola. The closest relatives of Myxobolus ladogensis (syn. M. pelecicola) include several muscle-infecting Myxobolus spp. with sequence similarity below 97%.

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The research is supported by Natural Science Fund of Hubei Province (2018CFA074), Jiangsu Independent Innovation fund for Agriculture (CX(17)2017) and Fund of State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology (2019FBZ01).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Aquaculture Diseases Control, Ministry of Agriculture, State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, China

    Jin-Yong Zhang & Xin-Hua Liu

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 10049, China

    Xin-Hua Liu

  3. State Academy of Veterinary Medicine, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 196084

    Vladimir N. Voronin

  4. State Research Institute of Lake and River Fisheries, Makarova Emb. 26, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 199053

    Vladimir N. Voronin & Alexander S. Dudin

  5. All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection, Podbelskogo 3, Pushkin, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 196608

    Yuri S. Tokarev

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Zhang, JY., Liu, XH., Voronin, V.N. et al. Myxobolus pelecicola Voronin et Dudin 2015 is a junior synonym of Myxobolus ladogensis Rumyantsev et Schulman 1997 (Myxosporea: Myxobolidae) infecting the skeletal muscle of sichel Pelecus cultratus (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae) in Russia. Parasitol Res 118, 3099–3103 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-019-06444-1

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