Host-Parasite list of cartilaginous fish

I combined data from three publicly available datasets, namely Shark Reference (https://shark-references.com/) (Pollerspöck &amp; Straube, 2020), World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (www.marinespecies.org) (Horton et al., 2019) and the Elasmobranch Host Specimen Database (www.elasmobranchs.tapewormdb.uconn.edu) (Caira &amp; Jensen, 2017). These data, collectively, resulted in 7 200 host-parasite interactions, spanning 556 cartilaginous fish host species and 2 525 parasite species. This database includes extant species that occur in the ocean and duplicate records and synonyms were resolved. Limiting the dataset to just parasites of cartilaginous fish may skew specificity counts. Therefore, a host list was back engineered from the parasite list above using the WoRMS database to develop a host list of potential hosts that go beyond cartilaginous fish. This increased the dataset by 758 non-cartilaginous host species, resulting in a total of 1 314 hosts and an increase to 8 503 host-parasite interactions- Pollerspöck J, Straube N. 2020.Bibliography Database of living/fossil sharks, rays and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali). Available at www.shark-references.com- Caira JN, Jensen K. 2017.Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008–2017): Tapeworms from the vertebrate bowels of the earth. Available at www.tapewormdb.uconn.edu - Horton et al., 2019.World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available at http://www.marinespecies.org<br>