Species Cyamus balaenopterae Barnard, 1931

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• Cyamus balaenopterae Barnard, K.H. 1931. Diagnosis of new genera and species of amphipod Crustacea collected during the "Discovery" Investigations, 1925–1927. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 7(40): 425-430 [430].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1936.11.2.3495–3501, Saldanha Bay and Durban, S Africa.

  Type host:

   Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758)

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), 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

Ecological Descriptors

Ectocommensal, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Australian hosts Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) and Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1791).

 

General References

Barnard, K.H. 1932. Amphipoda. Discovery Reports 5: 1-326 pl. 1

Dixon, J.M. 1982. The humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781), a first stranding for Port Phillip Bay, Victoria. Victorian Naturalist 99: 24-27 pls 1-2

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.

Leung, Y.-M. 1965. A collection of whale-lice (Cyamidae: Amphipoda). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 64: 132-143

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 [fig. 4b]

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

 

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