Species Cyamus catodontis Margolis, 1954

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• Cyamus boopis physeteris Pouchet, G. 1892. Contribution à l'histoire des Cyames. Journal de l'Anatomie et de la Physiologie Normales et Pathologiques de l'Homme et des Animaux 28: 99-108 [99, footnote] [junior homonym of Cyamus physeteris Pouchet, 1888].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, "au nord de Florès", Azores.

  Type host:

   Physeter catodon Linnaeus, 1758

  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 catodontis Margolis, L. 1954. Three kinds of whale-lice (Cyamidae: Amphipoda) from the Pacific Coast of Canada, including a new species. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 11(3): 319-325 [320, pls 1, 2].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMC ♀, seas in the vicinity of the northern part of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
  Paratype(s) NMC 1♂; 2♂ 2♀.

  Type host:

   Physeter catodon Linnaeus, 1758

  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.

 

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. [82]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: SW coast

Nearctic Region

• Canada
  • British Columbia

Palaearctic Region

• Azores

Ecological Descriptors

Ectocommensal, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Australian host Physeter catodon Linnaeus, 1758.

 

General References

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

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