WoRMS 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]
Distribution All oceans (based on distribution of host).
Description Widespread on right whales (Griffiths, 1974).
Distribution All oceans (based on distribution of host). [details]
Description Widespread on right whales (Griffiths, 1974).
Description Widespread on right whales (Griffiths, 1974). [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: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=214804 on 2025-07-13
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Nomenclature
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
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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
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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. [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 [request]
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
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Association Ectocommensal on Eubalaena australis (Demoulins, 1822), Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776), Eubalaena japonica (Lacépède, 1818), Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781). [details]Distribution All oceans (based on distribution of host). [details]
Unreviewed
Description Widespread on right whales (Griffiths, 1974). [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ヒメクジラジラミ | [details] |
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
