Species Isocyamus delphinii (Guérin Méneville, 1836)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cyamus delphinii Guérin Méneville, F.-E. 1836. Iconographie du Regne Animal de G. Cuvier. Planches des animaux invertebres. Paris and London : J.B. Baillière Vol. 2. [pl. 28, fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, sur les côtes des Antilles.

  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 globicipitis Lütken, C.F. 1870. Conspectus Cyamidarum borealium hujusque cognitarum. Bulletin of the Mauritius Institute 13: 279-280 [280].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMUC, Faroes Island.

  Type host:

   Globicephala melaena (Traill, 1809)

  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. [89]

 

Generic Combinations

• Isocyamus delphinii (Guérin Méneville, 1836). —
  Bowman, T.E. 1955. A new genus and species of whale-louse (Amphipoda: Cyamidae) from the false killer whale. Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean 5(4): 315-320 [318, 320]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

In all oceans from 70ºN–60ºS.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Lower E coast

Ecological Descriptors

Ectocommensal, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Australian hosts Globicephala melas (Traill, 1809) (as Globicephala melaena), Pseudorca crassidens (Owen, 1846) and Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758).

 

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.

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

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