Genus Cyamus Latreille, 1796

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pediculus Seba, A. 1734. Locupletissimi rerum naturalium Thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiosissimis expresio, per universam physices historiam. Amtelaedami Vol. 1. [142] [pre-Linnaean name, unavailable].

  Secondary source:

   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.
• Cyamus Latreille, P.A. 1796. Precis des caracteres generiques des insectes, disposes dans un ordre naturel. Paris. 201 pp. [199].

  Type species:

   Oniscus ceti Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent monotypy, see Lamarck, J.B. 1801. Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou, tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaus; présentant leurs caractères essentials et leur distribution, d'après la considération de leurs rapports naturels et de leur organisation, et suivant l'arrangement établi dans les galeries du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, parmi leurs dépouilles conservées; précéde du Discours d'ouverture de l'an VIII de la République. Paris : Déterville viii 432 pp. [166].

  Secondary source:

   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.
• Panope Leach, W.E. 1814. Crustaceology. pp. 383-437 in Brewster, D. Sir (ed.). The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Edinburgh : John Murray Baldwin & Cradocle Vol. 7 (2). [404].

  Type species:

   Oniscus ceti Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.
• Larunda Leach, W.E. 1815. A tabular view of the external characters of four classes of animals, which Linné arranged under Insecta; with the distribution of the genera composing three of these classes into orders &c. and descriptions of several new genera and species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 11: 306-400 [353, 363].

  Type species:

   Oniscus ceti Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.
• Sirenocyamus Brandt, J.F. 1846. Über den gleichzeitig mit der Ausrottung der Pflegemutter bewerkstelligten geschichtlich nachweisbaren Untergang einer kleinen parasitischen Krebsart (Cyamus? oder richtiger vielleicht Sirenocyamus? rhytinae) und eines Eingeweidewurmes der Jetztwelt. Bulletin de l'Académie impériale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg 5: 189-192 [189].

  Type species:

   Sirenocyamus rhytinae Brandt, 1846 by monotypy.
• Paracyamus Sars, G.O. 1894. An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with Short Descriptions and Figures of all the Species. Vol. 1 Amphipoda. Pts 29–30. Dulichiidae, Caprellidae, Cyamidae. Christiania : Alb. Cammermeyer pp. 629-671, pls 226-240. [669].

  Type species:

   Cyamus boopis Lütken, 1870 by monotypy.

 

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. [80]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central W coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast

Nearctic Region

• Canada
  • British Columbia
• Greenland
• United States of America
  • California

Neotropical Region

• Panama

Palaearctic Region

• Azores
• Japan

Distribution References

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		19-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED