Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 115 1964 Number 3487 



THE CALIGID COPEPOD GENUS DENTIGRYPS 

 (CRUSTACEA: CALIGOIDA) 



By Alan G. Lewis ^ 



Introduction 



The genus Dentigryps was erected by C. B. Wilson (1913) for D. 

 curtus, which Wilson described on the basis of six female specimens 

 taken from the mouth and gill cavities of Mycteroperca venenosa apua 

 (Bloch) in Bermuda. Only one additional species has since been 

 described in the genus, D. bifurcatus Lewis (1964), although several 

 closely allied species have been described in other genera without 

 any comment on their affinities with Dentigryps. 



Wilson (1913) indicates that Dentigryps may be a connecting link 

 between several genera which include representatives of the families 

 Caligidae and Euryphoridae. This implication is discussed following 

 the description of the four species included in this survey. 



This work is based largely on material, including the types of the 

 new species, deposited in the collections of the United States National 

 Museum. The specimens were collected from fishes taken in Florida, 

 the Hawaiian Islands, and at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands. 

 The author was assisted by a Sigma Xi RESA grant-in-aid for the 

 summer of 1961. He is grateful for this and for the aid given to him 



' Department of Zoology, University of New Hampshire. 



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