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Marcia Raquel Pegoraro de Macedo1, Marialetizia Palomba2, Mario Santoro1
1Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale n 1, Naples 80121, Italy.
Abstract:
Elasmobranch fishes comprise sharks and sawfish (infraclass Selachii), and rays, skates, and stingrays (infraclass Batoidea). Many elasmobranch species are popular fish exhibited in zoos and public aquariums. They may serve as hosts for a great variety of parasites. Among these, parasitic copepods are commonly known to cause serious damage to their hosts. In this paper, we summarize and analyse the existing literature on the pandarid copepods (Siphonostomatoida Burmeister, 1835) of elasmobranch fishes, as it relates to their diversity, life cycles, host-specificity, biogeography, pathology, and available treatments.
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