WoRMS taxon details
Cyamus boopis Lütken, 1870
AphiaID: 158320
AphiaID: 158320
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Amphipoda (Order) > Senticaudata (Suborder) > Corophiida (Infraorder) > Caprellidira (Parvorder) > Caprelloidea (Superfamily) > Cyamidae (Family) > Cyamus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Cyamus Latreille, 1796 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cyamus ceti Chilton, 1883 Cyamus elongatus Hiro, 1938 Cyamus pacificus Lütken, 1873 Cyamus suffuses Dall, 1872 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Griffiths C.L. (1974b). The Amphipoda of Southern Africa. 3.The Gammaridea and Caprellidea of Natal. Annals of the South African Museum, 62, 7, 209-264; 8 figs.;. [details] additional source: Fenwick, G.D. (2009). Amphipoda (Crustacea). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: De Broyer, Claude. Checklist of Antarctic Amphipoda. [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | type locality: West Greenland [details] Antarctic Ocean [details] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Cosmopolitan (World Oceans) [details] Cuba [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] South Africa (country) [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||
| Specimens |
Lectotype: ZMUC CRU 4 [details]
Paralectotype: ZMUC CRU 5-6; CRU 8-12 [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 8 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Amphipod Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Association: Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski), Physeter catodon Linnaeus [details] Description: Widespread on humpback whales (Griffiths, 1974). [details] Distribution: southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley) [details] Habitat: upper epipelagic, ectoparasite found on Megaptera novaengliae [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158320 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Lowry, J. (2013). Cyamus boopis Lütken, 1870. In: Lowry, J. (2013) World Amphipoda database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158320 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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