“…Since the discovery of the myxozoan life cycle by Wolf and Markiw (1984), a lot of fresh water myxozoans have been known to use freshwater oligochaetes as alternate invertebrate hosts . For marine myxozoans, however, polychaetes have been suggested as the best candidates for the alternative invertebrate hosts; seven marine myxozoan life cycles have been elucidated at present time, and all of them are known to use polychaetes as alternative invertebrate hosts (Karlsbakk and Køie 2012;Køie et al 2004Køie et al , 2007Køie et al , 2008Køie et al , 2013Rangel et al 2009), except for Ortholinea auratae using marine oligochaete as marine invertebrate host (Rangel et al 2015). Thus, we exclusively sampled marine invertebrates from the sediment of outflow waterway of fish tank and around the fish farms, then investigated them by microscopic observation and molecular analysis, to find the possible invertebrate hosts they use for transmission.…”