Species Cyamus boopis Lütken, 1870
- Cyamus boopis Lütken, C.F. 1870. Conspectus Cyamidarum borealium hujusque cognitarum. Bulletin of the Mauritius Institute 13: 279-280 [280].
Type data:
Holotype ZMUC, West Greenland.Type host:
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) - Cyamus suffusus Dall, W.H. 1872. Descriptions of three new species of Crustacea parasitic on the Cetacea of the N.W. coast of America. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4(5): 281-283 [282].
Type data:
Syntype(s) CAS (presumed lost), Monterey, California, USA.Type host:
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) - Cyamus pacificus Lütken, C.F. 1873. Bidrag til Kundskab om Arterne af Slaegten Cyamus Latr. eller Hvallusene. Med 4 Tavler og et fransk Resume. Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes. Selskabs Skrifter. Kjøbenhavn 5 10(3): 231-284 pls 1-4 [264, pl. 3 fig. 7].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHN 2 specimens (no longer extant), the Pacific Coast of Panama. - Cyamus elongatus Hiro, F. 1938. Cyamus elongatus n.sp. a new whale-lice from Japan. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 17(1): 71-77 [71, figs 1-6].
Type data:
Holotype SMBL Type 57a ♂, Japan.
Paratype(s) SMBL Type 57b 1♀ 4♂.Type host:
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Gruner, H.-E. 1975. Part 5 Amphipod II Caprellidea II Fam. Cyamidae. pp. 79-104 in Gruner, H.-E. & Holthuis, L.B. (eds). Crustaceorum Catalogus. Den Haag : Dr. W Junk N.V. [81-82]
Distribution
States
South Australia, Western Australia
IMCRA
Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Central W coast, S Gulfs coast
Nearctic Region
- Greenland
- United States of America
- California
Neotropical Region
- Panama
Palaearctic Region
- Japan
Ecological Descriptors
Ectocommensal, marine.
Extra Ecological Information
Australian host Megaptera novaeanglia (Borowski, 1781)
General References
Gruner, H.-E. 1975. Part 5 Amphipod II Caprellidea II Fam. Cyamidae. pp. 79-104 in Gruner, H.-E. & Holthuis, L.B. (eds). Crustaceorum Catalogus. Den Haag : Dr. W Junk N.V. [81]
Hale, H.M. 1929. The Crustaceans of South Australia. Adelaide : Government Printer Vol. 2 201-380 pp. [236] (as Paracyamus boopis)
Leung, Y.-M. 1965. A collection of whale-lice (Cyamidae: Amphipoda). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 64: 132-143 [133]
Leung, Y.-M. 1967. An illustrated key to the species of whale-lice (Amphipoda, Cyamidae), ectoparasites of Cetacea, with a guide to the literature. Crustaceana 12(3): 279-291 [287]
Martin, J.W. & Heyning, J.E. 1999. First record of Isocyamus kogiae Sedlak-Weinstein, 1992 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Cyamidae) from the eastern Pacific, with comments on morphological characters, a key to the genera of the Cyamidae, and a checklist of cyamids and their hosts. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 98(1): 26-38
Sedlak-Weinstein, E. 1991. Three new records of cyamids (Amphipoda) from Australian cetaceans. Crustaceana 60(1): 90-104
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05-Aug-2022 | AMPHIPODA | 29-Apr-2013 | MODIFIED | Dr Jim Lowry (AM) |
| 05-Aug-2022 | 22-Nov-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Aug-2022 | 02-Mar-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 09-Mar-2010 | MODIFIED |