“…Ortholinea (Shulman, 1962), the target myxozoan genus in this study, is composed of coelozoic 26 binominal parasite species that infect mainly the urinary bladder of mostly marine and rarely freshwater fishes (Lom and Dyková, 2006;Shin et al, 2023). Despite its limited biological diversity when compared with some other myxosporean genera such as Myxobolus, Myxidium, etc., reported species from fishes of this genus reveal a worldwide distribution (Lom and Dyková, 1992;Rangel et al, 2014Rangel et al, , 2015Rangel et al, , 2017Gürkanlı et al, 2018;Shin et al, 2023). Concordant with this data, 4 Ortholinea species (O. divergens, O. gobiusi, O. orientalis, O. mullusi) have been reported from the Black Sea coasts of Türkiye thus far (Özer et al, 2015a, 2015bGürkanlı et al, 2018).…”