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  "abstract": "Freshwater streams in Iraq harbour a remarkable diversity of fish species. A similarly high diversity has also been recorded for diplozoid parasites, which are commonly associated with the cyprinoid fishes. A new species, Paradiplozoon vorax sp. nov., is described from Leuciscus vorax from Al-Gharraf River. This is the 21st Paradiplozoon species recorded from Iraq and presumably the 11th species from this fish host. Phylogenetic analyses based on the ITS2 rDNA region revealed a close relationship between P. vorax sp. nov. and P. pavlovskii, which exhibits a wide geographical range spanning Europe and the Middle East. Although these two species are morphologically similar, they differ in important characters such as the number of folds in the hindbody, the shape of postovarian caecum or the shape of anterior joining sclerite of clamps. It is hypothesized that these two species originated by vicariant speciation from a common ancestor associated with ancestral Aspius-like leuciscids.",
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    "Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic",
    "Department of Zoology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Czech Republic",
    "Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa",
    "Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources, College of Agriculture, University of Basrah, Basrah, Iraq"
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  "published": "2026-07-29",
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  "title": "Morphological and molecular evidence for Paradiplozoon vorax sp. nov. (Polyopisthocotyla: Diplozoidae) from Leuciscus vorax in Southern Iraq",
  "title_text": "Morphological and molecular evidence for Paradiplozoon vorax sp. nov. (Polyopisthocotyla: Diplozoidae) from Leuciscus vorax in Southern Iraq",
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