Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 121 1967 Number 3572 



CALIGOID COPEPODS PARASITIC 

 ON SHARKS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN 



By Roger F. Cressey 



Associate Curator, Division of Crustacea 



During the International Indian Ocean Expedition, 35 species of 

 caligoid copepods were collected from 29 species of sharks. The 

 author collected during Cruise 5 of the R.V. Anton Bruun and also at 

 Nosy Be, Madagascar (Malagasy Republic). In addition, several 

 other participants collected copepods and donated the material to the 

 author for inclusion in this study. 



Of the 35 species of copepods collected, 8 of them were new. Four 

 of these new species, all members of the Eudactylinidae, are described 

 here. Two of the others represented new genera (Pagina and Bariaka) 

 and each has been described separately elsewhere. The remaining 2 

 new species are members of the Pandaridae and are being described 

 in a paper currently in press revising the entire family. 



A map of the Indian Ocean showing points of collection is included 

 (fig. 54). All station numbers refer to points on the various cruise 

 tracks of the R.V. Anton Bruun. In text tabulations, Roman numerals 

 refer to spines, Arabic to setae. 



I would like to thank the following persons for their efforts on my 

 behalf: Dr. Richard Gooding, University of Singapore; Miss Sherril 



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