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(Dactylogyridae) from Iraq and Kuwait was described and differentiated from the similar species,\n Haliotrema indicum<\/jats:italic>\n Tripathi, 1959,\n Platycephalotrema ogawai<\/jats:italic>\n Kritsky & Nitta, 2019, and\n Platycephalotrema platycephali<\/jats:italic>\n (Yin & Sproston, 1948) Kritsky & Nitta, 2019, based primarily on the comparative morphologies of the vaginal sclerites.\n Haliotrema indicum<\/jats:italic>\n was transferred to\n Platycephalotrema<\/jats:italic>\n as\n Platycephalotrema indicum<\/jats:italic>\n (Tripathi, 1959) n. comb. and\n Haliotrema swatowense<\/jats:italic>\n Yao, Wang, Xia, & Chen, 1998 was considered a junior subjective synonym of\n P. indicum<\/jats:italic>\n . The finding of\n O. robustitubum<\/jats:italic>\n in the Arabian Gulf represents a new geographic record for the species.\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Background<\/jats:title>\n The present paper represents the third installment concerning the monogenoids collected during surveys to explore their diversity on the marine and freshwater fishes of Iraq. Previous installments on the monogenoids emanating from the surveys included the dactylogyrid and gyrodactylid species parasitizing mugilid fishes.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Purpose<\/jats:title>\n The purpose of this paper is to further document the diversity of monogenoids infecting the fishes of Iraq.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods<\/jats:title>\n Marine fishes were necropsied for parasites, and standard procedures for collecting, mounting, drawing, and measuring of monogenoids were employed.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n \n Oliveriplectanum robustitubum<\/jats:italic>\n n. comb. (Diplectanidae) and\n Platycephalotrema parile<\/jats:italic>\n n. sp. (Dactylogyridae) were collected. 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