Some copepods parasitic on elasmobranch fishes from the Peruvian coast, with the description of two new species of Eudactylina van Beneden, 1853 (Eudactylinidae) and four new records

Abstract

Six species of copepods parasitic on elasmobranch fishes from the Peruvian coast has been recorded. Two of them, Eudactylina peruensis and E. myliobatidos parasitic on Rhinobatos planiceps (Rhinobatidae) and Myliobatis chilensis (Myliobatidae), are considered new species. New geographical and host records for Pseudocharopinus narcinae Pillai, Pseudocharopinoides myliobatidos Castro and Baeza, Perissopus oblongus (Wilson) and Trebius latifurcatus (Wilson) are included, as also is a checklist of copepod species parasitic on elasmobranch fishes from the coast of the South American Pacific.

Keywords :

• Copepoda
• fish parasite
• elasmobranch fishes
• Perú
• South American Pacific