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Our objective was to further our knowledge of the diversity and life cycles of blood flukes in coastal South Carolina (SC), United States. Four species of terebellids (\n                    <jats:italic>Enoplobranchus sanguineus<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>Amphitrite ornata<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>Pista palmata<\/jats:italic>\n                    , and\n                    <jats:italic>Streblosoma hartmanae<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) were collected (total\n                    <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 201) at low tide from September 2025 to February 2026 at two localities in SC. Twelve specimens of three terebellid species were infected, and parasites were identified by sequencing the LSU and ITS2 regions of ribosomal RNA and the COI mitochondrial DNA gene.\n                    <jats:italic>Enoplobranchus sanguineus<\/jats:italic>\n                    (12.9% prevalence, 4\/31) and\n                    <jats:italic>A. ornata<\/jats:italic>\n                    (3.6% prevalence, 2\/55) were infected with the previously reported blood flukes\n                    <jats:italic>Neospirorchis<\/jats:italic>\n                    sp. Neogen14 (Unicaecidae) and\n                    <jats:italic>Cardicola parvus<\/jats:italic>\n                    (Aporocotylidae), respectively. No specimens of\n                    <jats:italic>S. hartmanae<\/jats:italic>\n                    were infected (0\/86). One new aporocotylid with mature sporocysts containing microcercous cercariae was discovered in\n                    <jats:italic>P. palmata<\/jats:italic>\n                    (20.7% prevalence, 6\/29). Phylogenetic analysis revealed that sequences of the new aporocotylid were in a well-supported clade with sequences of\n                    <jats:italic>Braya<\/jats:italic>\n                    spp. and\n                    <jats:italic>Cardicola abu<\/jats:italic>\n                    . 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