In Russia, Shulman (1966) reported the occurrence of this species in 22 cyprinids. After
the first sketchy drawing of Reuss (1906), the parasite was depicted in different ways by Dogiel (1948), Donec (1964); cited by Shulman (1966), Lom & Dykova´ (1992) and Longshaw et al. (2005) (Fig. 1a– e). Spores found by us in the type-host, the white bream, and the additional host, the common bream, corresponded with each other and resembled the illustrations of Donec (1964) (Fig. 1e). The measurement data given by the above authors are summarised in Table 2.