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Comparative morphological analysis revealed that\n                    <jats:italic>H. lineatum<\/jats:italic>\n                    represented a junior subjective synonym of\n                    <jats:italic>H. fluviatile<\/jats:italic>\n                    Euzet &amp; Birgi, 1975. Molecular analysis based on the 28S rDNA gene, representing the first inclusion of\n                    <jats:italic>H. fluviatile<\/jats:italic>\n                    as an ingroup taxon, placed this species within a well-supported clade of\n                    <jats:italic>Heterobothrium<\/jats:italic>\n                    species infecting tetraodontid fishes.\n                    <jats:italic>Heterobothrium indicum<\/jats:italic>\n                    Verma, 2022, a parasite of the goldband goatfish,\n                    <jats:italic>Upeneus moluccensis<\/jats:italic>\n                    (Bleeker) (Mulliformes: Mullidae), is herein transferred to\n                    <jats:italic>Upenicola<\/jats:italic>\n                    Unnithan, 1966 as\n                    <jats:italic>Upenicola indicus<\/jats:italic>\n                    (Verma, 2022)\n                    <jats:bold>n. comb.<\/jats:bold>\n                    The study highlighted the need for further investigation into the taxonomic status of\n                    <jats:italic>Diclidophora indica<\/jats:italic>\n                    Tripathi, 1959, and\n                    <jats:italic>Neodiclidophora simhai<\/jats:italic>\n                    Gupta &amp; Krishna, 1980, as probable members of\n                    <jats:italic>Heterobothrium.<\/jats:italic>\n                    Moreover,\n                    <jats:italic>Heterobothrium lamothei<\/jats:italic>\n                    of Morsy et al. (\n                    <jats:italic>nec<\/jats:italic>\n                    Vidal Martinez &amp; Mendoza-Franco) is regarded as a\n                    <jats:italic>species inquirenda.<\/jats:italic>\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/s0022149x26101473","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,24]],"date-time":"2026-04-24T07:59:26Z","timestamp":1777017566000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Morphological and molecular analyses of the taxonomy and phylogenetic position of\n                    <i>Heterobothrium fluviatile<\/i>\n                    (Monogenoidea: Diclidophoridae), a parasite of the gill lamellae of the Nile puffer,\n                    <i>Tetraodon lineatus<\/i>\n                    (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) in Egypt"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"100","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6227-9532","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"A.","family":"Mansour","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/00jxshx33","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"Qena University"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"D.C.","family":"Kritsky","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/0162z8b04","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"Idaho State University"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"S0022149X26101473_r31","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/sysbio\/sys029"},{"key":"S0022149X26101473_r7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.parint.2021.102489"},{"key":"S0022149X26101473_r9","unstructured":"Fricke, R , Eschmeyer, WN and Van der Laan, R (eds) (2024) Eschmeyer\u2019s Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. 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