Pandarus is a genus of marine copepods. Species of Pandarus are parasitic to various species of sharks.[2]
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| Pandarus bicolor print | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Copepoda |
| Order: | Siphonostomatoida |
| Family: | Pandaridae |
| Genus: | Pandarus Leach, 1816[1] |
Classification
editThere are fourteen recognized species,[3] including:
- Pandarus bicolor Leach, 1816
- Pandarus carcharhini Ho, 1963
- Pandarus cranchii Leach, 1819
- Pandarus echinifer Dippenaar, 2024[4]
- 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
edit- ^ "Pandarus". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
- ^ Cressey, Roger F. (1968). "Caligoid Copepods Parasitic on Isurus oxyrinchus With an Example of Habitat Shift". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 125 (3653). Smithsonian Institution Press.
- ^ Benz, George W. (1992). "How Pandarus Species (Copepoda: Pandaridae) Attach to Their Shark Hosts". The Journal of Parasitology. 78 (2): 368–370. doi:10.2307/3283492. ISSN 0022-3395. JSTOR 3283492.
- ^ Dippenaar, S. M. (22 June 2024). "Pandarus Leach, 1816 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Pandaridae) species collected from elasmobranchs off South Africa with the description of Pandarus echinifer n. sp.". Systematic Parasitology. 101 (4): 46. doi:10.1007/s11230-024-10167-y. ISSN 1573-5192. PMC 11193696.
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