NO. 3570 PANDARIDAE — CRESSEY 31 



Oral area with prominent adhesion pads with first and second 

 antenna. Adhesion pad of maxilliped small. Second maxilla (fig. 

 149) with shortest spine feathered at tip. Maxilliped (fig. 150) 

 spatulate at tip. 



Legs 1^ bu-amose and with spine and setal formula as follows: 



Sm-face of segments of legs 1-4 generously covered with patches of 

 spinules. Leg 5 (see fig. 148) consisting of a free segment bearing 

 4 naked setae (in one specimen the 2 innermost setae were fused to 

 form a thick spine) . 



Egg strings long and straight. 



Color in preserved specimens cream white with no pigmentation. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Remarks. ^ — Pseudopandartts gracilis was described in 1950 by P. 

 Kirtesinghe and was not reported again until 1959 by Yamaguti 

 and Yamasu. They determined their species to be new, based 

 primarily on the structure of the tip of the maxilliped. Unfortmiately, 

 Kirtesinghe's figure of this was misleading. I was fortunate to be able 

 to examine type material of P. gracilis, in which I found that there ac- 

 tually were no differences between the two species on this or any other 

 basis and thus have placed P. scyllii in synonymy. Yamaguti and 

 Yamasu define the fourth leg as having 2-segmented rami. Theu" 

 figure shows no articulation between segments. I have interpreted 

 the rami as being 1-segmented. They also refer to the plate of the 

 fourth segment as the structure that I have called the genital segment. 

 The plate of segment 4 actually covers the proximal portion of the 

 genital segment and is the same plate referred to by them as the plate 

 of segment 3. The plates of segments 2 and 3 referred to as one 

 plate belong to segment 2. A careful study of the copepod shows 

 this interpretation to be in error and not consistent with the usual 

 pandarid situation. 



To date, this parasite has been found in the Indo-Pacific area only 

 (Madagascar, Ceylon, Japan), parasitic on the body sm'face of small 

 inshore sharks {Carcharinus and Triakis). 



Pseudopandarus longus (Gnananiiithu, 1951) 



Figures 151-161 

 Pandarus longus Gnanamuthu, 1951a, p. 1245. — Kurian, 1955, p. 114, 



Specimens studied. — Four females ex Carcharinus obesus, 2 fe- 

 males ex Rhizoprionodon acutus, both sharks caught off Dm'ban, South 

 Africa. 



