Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 118 1966 Number 3524 



COPEPOD CRUSTACEANS PARASITIC 



ON ELASMOBRANCH FISHES 



OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS ' 



By Alan G. Lewis ^ 



Introduction 



This is the second of a series of three papers covering the copepod 

 parasites of Hawaiian fishes. The first (Lewis, 1964) deals with the 

 caUgoid copepod parasites of Hawaiian acanthurid fishes (surgeon 

 fishes). The third paper (in preparation) proposes to cover the cope- 

 pod parasites of teleost fishes of the Hawaiian Islands. 



The two references to copepod parasites of Hawaiian elasmobranch 

 fishes are of an incidental nature. Wilson (1924) indicated that 

 Pandarus satyrus had been taken from specimens of Prionace glauca 

 and (Wilson, 1932) that Pandarus smithii had been collected from 

 sharks in Hawaiian waters. Because of the wide distribution of 

 many of the host species it is not surprising that only one of the 

 thirteen species here discussed is described as a new species. 



1 This study was supported by a grant (NSF G-24956) from the National 

 Science Foundation. 



2 Assistant Professor of Oceanography, Institute of Oceanography, University 

 of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 



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