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On the basis of the material collected in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean four new species of trematodes are described: Bucephalopsis pseni sp. n., Diploproctodaeum chelonodoni sp. n., Bucephalus neoscombropsi sp. n., Phyllodistomum sobolevi sp. n. Anatomical and morphological characteristics of the above species as well as original figures of the trematodes are given, their taxonomic position is discussed.

New for the science three trematode species are described--Aporocotyle nototheniae sp. nov., Prosorchis saicevi sp. nov., Pseudocardicola emmelichthy sp. nov.--from commercial fishes of the Indian Ocean. New genus Pseudocardicola gen. nov. and new subfamily Pseudocardicolinae subfam. nov. are substantiated for Pseudocardicola emmelichthy species. The differential diagnoses for all three trematode species are given.