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Rhinogobius specimens, collected between 1967 and 2020 and stored at the Lake Biwa Museum and Gifu Prefectural Museum, were visually examined for the presence or absence of swelling of the abdomen or caudal peduncle specific to M. nagaraensis infestation. No swelling was identified among the 45,018 specimens collected from the main stream; however, one R. flumineus specimen collected from the Itaya River in 2011 exhibited a swelling among 1274 specimens collected from the tributaries. The myxospores extracted from the abdominal swelling were identified as M. nagaraensis through microscopic observation. Interviews with 26 individuals yielded four sightings of parasitized specimens, all of which occurred after 2007. Thus, there have been almost no cases of Rhinogobius species parasitism in the main stream from 2007 to the present, suggesting that parasitism may have predominantly spread to tributaries after 2007. Reasons for the changes in parasitism rates over time were discussed, including the possibility that parasitism rates in the main stream may have been underestimated due to biases caused by the sampling methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.2108\/zs250060","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,4]],"date-time":"2026-01-04T03:11:47Z","timestamp":1767496307000},"page":"146-150","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Temporal Changes in Infection by Myxobolus nagaraensis in Rhinogobius (Gobiidae) in the Nagara River Basin, Central Japan, from the 1960s to the 2020s"],"prefix":"10.2108","volume":"43","author":[{"given":"Yasunori","family":"Koya","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Education, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, Gifu 501-1193, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Satone","family":"Matsuoka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Education, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, Gifu 501-1193, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gen","family":"Ito","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Biodiversity Science, Ryukoku University, 1-5 Yokotani, Seta Oe-cho, Otsu, Shiga 520-2194, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"848","reference":[{"key":"1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"RJ Aston,  \"Environ Pollut.\"  5, \"Tubificids and water quality: A review.\" 1 (1970)","DOI":"10.1016\/0013-9327(73)90050-5"},{"key":"2","unstructured":"A Fujita,  \"\u201cFreshwater Fishes of Japan\u201d.\"  \"Yoshinobori goby (river type).\" 448 (2015)"},{"key":"3","unstructured":"A Fujita,  \"\u201cThe Encyclopedia of Ichthyology\u201d.\"  \"National Census on River and Dam Environments.\" 544 (2018)"},{"key":"4","unstructured":"\"Gifu City Nature Information.\"  (2014)"},{"key":"5","unstructured":"\"Gifu City Red List\/Blue List 2015.\"  (2015)"},{"key":"6","unstructured":"\"Classification of fishing gear and fishing methods in Gifu Prefecture.\"  (1998)"},{"key":"7","unstructured":"\"Gifu Prefecture Red Data Book (Animals) Revised Edition.\"  (2015)"},{"key":"8","unstructured":"\"About Gifu Prefecture's fishing industry.\"  (2023)"},{"key":"9","unstructured":"M Goto,  \"Seibutsukyouiku (Edited by Gifu Prefectural Senior High School's Society for Biology Education).\"  16, \"Fish Fauna of the Nagara River; 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