Hepatozoon pyramidumi sp. n. (Apicomplexa: Adeleorina) from the blood of Echis pyramidum: morphology and SSU rDNA sequence.

Hepatozoon pyramidumi sp. n. is described from the blood of the Egyptian saw-scaled viper, Echis pyramidum, captured from Saudi Arabia.

Zschokkella egyptica n. sp. (Myxosporea: Bivalvulaida) infecting the gallbladder of the eel catfish Plotosus lineatus Thunberg, 1787 and the freckled goatfish Upeneus tragula Richardson, 1846 in the Red Sea, Egypt.

A new myxosporean, Zschokkella egyptica n. sp. was found in the gallbladder of two hosts: the eel catfish Plotosus lineatus and the freckled goat fish Upeneus tragula from the Red Sea at Suez City, Egypt.