Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 121 1967 Number 3570 



REVISION OF THE FAMILY PANDARIDAE 

 (COPEPODA: CALIGOIDA)i 



By Roger Cressey 



Associate Curator, Division of Crustacea 



In 1907, C. B. Wilson published a revision of the subfamily 

 Pandarinae as part of a series of papers dealing with caligoid copepods. 

 We now recognize that much of this work was superficial, containing 

 descriptions of species often incomplete and inadequately figured; 

 nevertheless, it served to focus attention on a group of parasites, 

 caligoid copepods, which were then and are still today poorly known 

 in most cases. 



Between 1960 and 1965 I collected and solicited material of the 

 family Pandaridae from as many different areas as possible. As a 

 result of this accumulation of material and data, I feel that a revision 

 of the family is in order. Ecological relationships are now more 

 evident than before. 



Because of inadequate species descriptions that exist for most 

 members of this family, positive identification of material is often 

 difficult. This results in the publication of records that obscure our 

 understanding of existing host-parasite relationships. I believe that, 

 in most cases, I have examined enough samples of members of this 



' Modified from a Ph. D. dissertation submitted to Boston University, Boston, 



Mass. 



