Synopsis of myxosporean species (Cnidaria: Myxozoa) parasitizing fishes from Vietnam

This paper provides an update checklist of species-level identified myxosporean species from marine and freshwater fishes in Vietnam. The list includes 51 nominal myxosporean species (38 marine and 13 freshwater) belonging to 9 genera: Myxobolus (26 species); Kudoa (6 species); Henneguya (6 species); Thelohanellus (5 species); Unicapsula (2 species); Ceratomyxa (2 species), Zschokkella (2 species); Auerbachia (1 species), and Meglitschia (1 species). For each parasite species, information on morphological characteristics of myxospore, fish hosts, infection sites, and collection locality in Vietnam along with GenBank accession number of nucleotide sequence data and the line drawings were provided. In addition, taxonomic status of several species was discussed and Myxobolus eszterbaueri nom. nov. is proposed as a junior homonym for Myxobolus hakyi Baska, Voronin, Eszterbauer, Müller, Marton & Molnár 2009.