Pandarus (genus)
{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Pandarus bicolor - - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBAINV0274 100 03 0015.tif
| image_caption = Pandarus bicolor print
| taxon = Pandarus
| authority = Leach, 1816{{cite WoRMS |title=Pandarus |id=135638 |access-date=24 July 2024}}
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Pandarus is a genus of marine copepods. Species of Pandarus are parasitic to various species of sharks.{{cite journal
|journal=Proceedings of the United States National Museum
|title=Caligoid Copepods Parasitic on Isurus oxyrinchus With an Example of Habitat Shift
|first=Roger F.
|last=Cressey
|date=1968
|publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press
|volume=125
|number=3653
|pages=1–26
|doi=10.5479/si.00963801.125-3653.1
|url=https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofuni31251968unit/proceedingsofuni31251968unit_djvu.txt |language=en}}
Classification
There are fourteen recognized species,{{cite journal |last1=Benz |first1=George W. |title=How Pandarus Species (Copepoda: Pandaridae) Attach to Their Shark Hosts |journal=The Journal of Parasitology |date=1992 |volume=78 |issue=2 |pages=368–370 |doi=10.2307/3283492 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3283492 |issn=0022-3395 |jstor=3283492}} including:
- Pandarus bicolor Leach, 1816
- Pandarus carcharhini Ho, 1963
- Pandarus cranchii Leach, 1819
- Pandarus echinifer Dippenaar, 2024{{cite journal |last1=Dippenaar |first1=S. M. |title=Pandarus Leach, 1816 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Pandaridae) species collected from elasmobranchs off South Africa with the description of Pandarus echinifer n. sp. |journal=Systematic Parasitology |date=22 June 2024 |volume=101 |issue=4 |pages=46 |doi=10.1007/s11230-024-10167-y |pmid=38907944 |language=en |issn=1573-5192|pmc=11193696 }}
- Pandarus floridanus Cressey, 1967
- Pandarus katoi Cressey, 1967
- Pandarus niger Kirtisinghe, 1950
- Pandarus satyrus Dana, 1849-1852
- Pandarus sinuatus Say, 1818
- Pandarus smithii Rathbun, 1886
- Pandarus zygaenae Brady, 1883
References
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Category:Animal parasites of fish
Category:Taxa named by William Elford Leach
Category:Taxa described in 1816
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