Species Platycyamus thompsoni (Gosse, 1855)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cyamus thompsoni Gosse, P.H. 1855. Notes on some new or little-known marine animals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2 16: 27-36 [30 pl. 3 fig. 11].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Portland Roads, Britain.

  Type host:

   Hyperoodon ampullatus (Forster, 1770) [ZIPHIIDAE] (recorded as Hyperoodon bidens (Shaw, 1801), see )

  Secondary source:

   Spence Bate, C. & Westwood, J.O. 1866. A History of the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea. London : John Van Voorst Vol. II pp. 65-208. [96]; 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. [91]; 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.

 

Generic Combinations

• Platycyamus thompsoni (Gosse, 1855). —
  Lütken, C. F. 1870. Conspectus Cyamidarum borealium hujusque cognitarum. Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania 13: 279-280 [279]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

North Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, North Pacific Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Palaearctic Region

• United Kingdom

Ecological Descriptors

Ectocommensal, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Australian hosts are Mesoplodon grayi von Haast, 1876 and Hyperoodon planifrons Flower, 1882.

 

General References

Dixon, J.M., Frigo, L. & Moyle, R.L.C. 1994. New information on the Southern Bottlenose Whale, Hyperoodon planifrons (Cetacea: Ziphiidae), from a recent stranding in Victoria, Australia. Australian Mammalogy 17: 85-95

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

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

Wolff, T. 1958. On the rare whale-louse Platycyamus thompsoni (Gosse) (Amphipoda, Cyamidae). Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 120: 1-4

 

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