Table 1.

Comparative description of M. ropari sp. nov. with morphologically similar species (measurements are in micrometers)

Species	Host	Site of infection	Locality	Spore	Polar capsule
M. ropari sp. nov. (present study)	Cirrhina mrigala	Gill filaments	Ropar wetland, Punjab (India)	12.58 × 4.5	4.96 × 1.50
M. macrocapsularis Reuss 1906	Blicca bjoerkna	Gills	Russia	9.0–14.5 × 6.0–9.9	5.0–8.6 × 2.4–3.6
M. aureatus Ward 1919	Notropis anogenus	Fin	USA	12.4–13.5 × 6.5–7.5	6.0–7.5
M. angustus Kudo 1934	Cliola vigilax	Gills	USA	14.0–15.0 × 7.0–8.0	8.0–9.5 × 2.5–3
M. calbasui Chakravarty 1939	C. mrigala	Gall bladder	India	12.4–15.0 × 8.2–10.0	6.18 × 4.12 and 4.12 × 3.09
M. mrigalae Chakravarty 1939	C. mrigala	Scales	India	7.2–8.2	5.15 × 3.09 and 3.09 × 2.06
M. catlae Chakravarty 1943	C. mrigala	Gills	India	14.5–16.5 × 6.18	10.3–12.36 × 2.06–3.01
M. indicum Tripathi 1952	C. mrigala	Muscles, liver, intestinal wall	India	9.5–10.8 × 7.5–8.2	2.7–3.6 and 1.8
M. rewensis Srivastava 1979	C. mrigala	Scales	India	9.66 × 8.05	4.8 × 3.2
M. carnaticus Seenappa and Manohar 1980	C. mrigala	Gills	India	8.6 × 6.8	3.8 × 2.0 and 2.1 × 1.5
M. vanivilasae Seenappa and Manohar 1980	C. mrigala	Beneath muscles, scales integument	India	8.0–10.0 × 7.0–9.0	3.57 × 2.57
M. hosadurgensis Seenappa and Manohar 1981	C. mrigala	Gills, muscles	India	10.5 × 6.25	5.37 × 2.3 and 3.3 × 1.43
M. shetti Seenappa and Manohar 1981	C. mrigala	Gills	India	8.8 × 7.4	3.4 × 2.3
M. vedavatiensis Seenappa and Manohar 1981	C. mrigala	Gills	India	13.8 × 9.2	6.2 × 3.4 and 3.9 × 2.6
M. venkateshi Seenappa and Manohar 1981	C. mrigala	Gills	India	9.75 × 7.15	5.25 × 2.0
M. mathuri Jayasri et al. 1981	Puntius saranae	Gills	India	8.7–23.5 × 5.1–10.1	2.7–11.9 × 1.8–4.6 and 2.7–7.8 and 1.8–4.6
M. pseudokoi Li and Desser 1985	Notropis cornutus	Gills, skin	Canada	13.5 × 6.5	6.5 × 2.5
M. indirae (Kundu 1985) Gupta and Khera 1988	C. mrigala	Scales of tail fin	India	12.6 × 9.6	4.7 × 2.2
M. trichogasteri (Sarkar 1985) Gupta and Khera 1988	Trichogaster fasciatus	Gall bladder	India	15.5 × 9.4	10.1 × 3.3
M. haldari Gupta and Khera 1989	C. mrigala	Fin, gills	India	9.31 × 7.95	4.31 × 2.97 and 2.95 × 1.98
M. yogindrai (Tripathi 1952) Landsberg and Lom 1991	C. mrigala	Inner side of scales	India	9.0–9.5 × 7.2	2.8 × 3.6
M. longisporus Nie and Li 1992	Cyprinus carpio	Gills	China	16.0–17.5 × 6.5–7.0	7.5–8.2 × 2.0
M. kribiensis Fomena and Bouix 1994	Brycinus longispinnis	Skin, eye-sclera	Cameroon	21.2 × 9.5	16.1 × 15.4
M. orissae Haldar et al. 1997	C. mrigala	Gills	India	15.71 × 6.8	8.8 × 1.78 and 7.58 × 2.57
M. maculates Casal et al.2002	Metynnis maculates	Kidney	Brazil	21.0 × 8.9	12.7 × 3.2
M. ophthalmasculata Basu and Haldar 2002	C. mrigala	Eye-muscles	India	13.13 × 8.04	5.47 × 3.06 and 3.03 × 1.99
M. rocatlae Basu and Haldar 2002	Catla catla x L. rohita	Gills, gut	India	18.5 × 5.9	12.9 × 2.8
M. catmriglae Basu and Haldar 2004	Catla catla x C. migala	Gill lamellae	India	18.8 × 5.9	11.9 × 2.5
M. bilobus Cone et al.2005	Notemigonus crysoleucas	Gill filaments	Canada	21.0 × 8.4	10.8 × 2.7 and 10.1 × 2.3
M. shuleensis Eiras et al. 2005	Pseudorasbora parva	Gills	China	16.1 × 9.0	7.1 × 3.0
M. naini Kaur and Singh 2008	C. mrigala	Gills	India	12.9 × 8.2	4.9 × 3.1 and 3.33 × 1.63
M. eirasi Kaur and Singh 2009a	C. mrigala	Gills	India	8.6 × 6.7	3.2 × 1.57
M. leptobarbi Szekely et al.2009	Leptobarbus hoevenii	Muscles	Malaysia	16.0 × 8.9	10.5 × 3.0 and 9.9 × 3.0
M. slendrii Kaur and Singh 2009b	C. mrigala	Gills	India	14.87 × 3.4	5.74 × 1.48
M. mehlhorni Kaur and Singh 2011	C. mrigala	Gill lamellae (mucous membrane)	India	8.9 × 6.8	3.7 × 2.5 and 2.6 × 1.5