Adult specimens of the genus Paraphilopinna Zhukov, 1971 (Digenea : Didymozoidae) are described from a freshwater fish, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus (Cantor) (Cobitidae), taken in Sarurunto in Shibecha, eastern Hokkaido, Japan. The site of infection is not known. They are morphologically different from the type species P. fluvialis Zhukov, 1971 found in M. anguillicaudatus from northeastern China. They remain to be identified to species
