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Myxospores were observed in the plasmodia and found floating freely in the bile and were elliptoid and fusiform in valvular and sutural views respectively. The myxospore poles were slightly pointed away from the midline of the sutural plane of the myxospore. The myxospore valve surface had 9\u201312 striations. Mean myxospore dimensions (range, \u00b5m) were 13.7 (13.0\u201314.2) long, 6.5 (5.4\u20137.2) wide, and 6.4 (6.1\u20136.7) thick. Two equal-sized polar capsules were broadly ovoid to spherical, oriented to opposite extremes of the myxospore, and contained a tubule with 4\u20136 coils. Mean polar capsule dimensions (and range) were 4.3 (3.6\u20134.9) long and 3.6 (3.2\u20134.4) wide. Morphologically, the myxospores of this species were distinct from those of most other Myxidium species, and for the few species where dimensions overlapped, the average dimensions were different, and host and locality were also distinct. As such, we described this as Myxidium fonti n. sp. in honor of William F. Font. Phylogenetically, M. fonti is sister to Myxidium phyllium from another poeciliid host, and these species fall into a larger biliary tract lineage of myxosporeans. The relationships support previous work that suggests that tissue specificity, with some exceptions, is important in the phylogeny of myxosporeans.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1645\/24-65","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,31]],"date-time":"2025-03-31T00:46:42Z","timestamp":1743382002000},"page":"163-171","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["A New Myxidium Species from the Least Killifish Heterandria formosa in Louisiana"],"prefix":"10.1645","volume":"111","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6139-0426","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Christopher M.","family":"Whipps","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"SUNY-ESF, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Environmental Biology, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, New York 13210."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Emily C.","family":"Ogburn","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"SUNY-ESF, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Environmental Biology, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, New York 13210."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"William F.","family":"Font","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Southeastern Louisiana University, Department of Biological Sciences, Hammond, Louisiana 70402."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1220","reference":[{"key":"1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","unstructured":"G. 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