Five Species of Parasitic Copepods (Siphonostomatoida: Pandaridae) from the Body Surface of a White Shark Captured in Morro Bay, California

摘要

Five pandarid (Copepoda) species, Dinemoura produeta, D. latifolia,Echthrogaleus coleoptratus, Pandarus bicolor, and Aehtheinus oblongus, were collectedfrom the external body surface of a white shark, Careharodon carcharias, takenfrom Morro Bay in the northeastern Pacific Ocean off central California. This isthe first report of parasitic copepods collected from C. carcharias captured in thenortheastern Pacific along the West Coast of North America. It is proposed thatthe species-rich infections of some white sharks may be the result of the widewanderings of individual sharks through waters inhabited by other elasmobranchs.