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A List of the Parasitic Copepoda of Fish obtained 



at Plymouth. 



By 

 P, W. Bassett-Smith, F.Z.S., F.R.M.S., Surgeon, R.N. 



The material from which the present list of Parasitic Copepoda has 

 been compiled was obtained in part by the examination of fish at the 

 Marine Biological Association's Laboratory, but to a still greater extent 

 by daily and diligent search at certain fishmongers' in the town. The 

 following are the most important works consulted : — 



1785. Miiller, 0. F., Entomostraca seu Inseda testacea, Lipsice et 



Hafnice. 

 1826 and 1831. Otto and Burmeister, Nova acta Natur Curios. 

 1832. Nordmann, A. von, Mikrographische Beitragc zur Naturgcscldclite 



der wirbellosen Thiere. 

 1834-40. Milne Edwards, Histoire Naturelle des Crustac^s. 

 1838. Kroyer, H., Om. Snyltehrcbsene isacr med Hensyn til den 



Danske Faima, Kroyer's Naturhist Tidsskrift, Bd. 2, 



pp. 7-52, 131-157. 



1850. Baird, W., Natural History of the British Entomostraca. Eay 



Society. 



1851. Beneden, P. J. Van, Note sur un CrustacS parasite nouveau, 



avec V enumeration des especes, &c. Bull, de I'Acad. de 



Belg. tome xviii. 1, pp. 286-290. 

 1860. Cla.\xs,C., Zur Mo rphologie der CojMpoden. Wurzburg naturwiss 



Zeits. i. pp. 20-36. 

 1862-68. Hesse, Observations sur des Crustacds rares ou nuuveaux des 



cotes de France. 16 papers, Ann. Sci. Nat. 

 1865. Heller, C, Crustaceen, Keise der Fregatte Novara. 

 1866-79. Gerstacker, A., Crustacea, vol. 5, Bronu. Class, und Ord. 



des Tliierreichs, Copepoda, pp. 590-806. 

 1875. Claus, C, Ueber die Entwiekehoig, Organisation und systematischc 



Stcllung der Argulidat. Zeits wiss Zool. vol. xxv. pp. 



217-224. 



