New data on wild grey mullet (<i>mugil cephalus</i> linnaeus, 1758) myxosporean (<i>myxobolus episquamalis</i> egusa et al., 1990) in the black sea
Journal: E3S Web of Conferences
Year: 2020

Flathead grey mullet, Mugil cephalus , with mass whitish cystlike plasmodia on their scales were collected at Kerchensky preglass of the Black Sea in 2015. The prevalence of infected fish varied from 15% in spring, reached 100% in summer, and declined to 2.5% in autumn. No fish mortality was detected. The spores were oval in frontal view, tapering to a blunt apex. Two unequal polar capsules were pyriform and extended over the anterior half of spore. Spores were 8.2±0.03 µm (7.9-8.4) long, 5.9±0.