RAMS taxon details
Cyamus erraticus Roussel de Vauzème, 1834
214804 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:214804)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Roussel De Vauzeme D.M. (1834). Mémoire sur le Cyamus ceti (Latr.) de la classe des Crustacés. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Série 2, 1, pp. 239-255; 257-265. [details]
Type locality contained in South Atlantic
type locality contained in South Atlantic [details]
Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Cyamus erraticus Roussel de Vauzème, 1834. Accessed through: De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2025) Register of Antarctic Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/RAMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=214804 on 2026-04-23
De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2026). Register of Antarctic Marine Species. Cyamus erraticus Roussel de Vauzème, 1834. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/rams./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=214804 on 2026-04-23
original description
Roussel De Vauzeme D.M. (1834). Mémoire sur le Cyamus ceti (Latr.) de la classe des Crustacés. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Série 2, 1, pp. 239-255; 257-265. [details]
basis of record Griffiths, C. L. (1974). The Amphipoda of Southern Africa. 3. The Gammaridea and Caprellidea of Natal. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 62(7): 209-264, figs: 1-8. [details] Available for editors
additional source Alonso De Pina G. & Giuffra R. (2003). Taxonomia, distribucion y notas sobre cuatro especies de ectoparasitos de Cetacea (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Cyamidae. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Nueva Serie, 5, 1, 39-62 pp., available online at https://doi.org/10.22179/revmacn.5.29 [details]
additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors
basis of record Griffiths, C. L. (1974). The Amphipoda of Southern Africa. 3. The Gammaridea and Caprellidea of Natal. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 62(7): 209-264, figs: 1-8. [details] Available for editors
additional source Alonso De Pina G. & Giuffra R. (2003). Taxonomia, distribucion y notas sobre cuatro especies de ectoparasitos de Cetacea (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Cyamidae. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Nueva Serie, 5, 1, 39-62 pp., available online at https://doi.org/10.22179/revmacn.5.29 [details]
additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (42 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cyamus erraticus)
To GenBank (60 nucleotides; 75 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (42 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cyamus erraticus)
To GenBank (60 nucleotides; 75 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record)
To ITIS