Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION . WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 121 19(37 



Number 3574 



COPEPOD CRUSTACEANS 



PARASITIC ON TELEOST FISHES 



OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS ' 



By Alan G. Lewis ^ 



Introduction 



This is the third and last of a series of papers covering the copepod 

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

 caligoid copepod parasites of Hawaiian acanthurid fishes, the second 

 (Lewis, 1966) covers the copepod crustaceans parasitic on elasmo- 

 branch fishes, and the present paper deals with copepod crustaceans 

 parasitic on teleost fishes. An additional paper (Lewis, 1964b), deal- 

 ing vnth the caligoid genus Dentigryps, includes descriptions of two spe- 

 cies found on Hawaiian fishes. 



Other than the papers mentioned above, the references to copepods 

 taken from Hawaiian teleosts are those of Nordmann (1864), de- 

 scribmg Norion expansus and Peniculus calamus from unknown 

 hosts, and Edmondson (1946), who figures a species of Lernaeenicus 

 from dolphins. Bonnet (1948) lists some Hawaiian copepods taken 

 primarily from pelagic fishes, and Shimo (1963) describes Midias 

 lobodes, Caligus coryphaenae, and BracUella thynni from fishes ex- 

 ammed in t he Honolulu Fish Market. In addition to these, Randall 



1 This study was supported by grants (G-24956 and GB-2464) from the National 

 Science Foundation. 



2 Associate Professor of Oceanography, Institute of Oceanogi-aphy, University 

 of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 



