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Name - Cyamus ceti

Name Details

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:491226 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Species

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Animalia (Kingdom)
Arthropoda (Phylum)
Crustacea (Subphylum)
Malacostraca (Class)
Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
Peracarida (Superorder)
Amphipoda (Order)

References

Recent Publications

  • Feeding relationship of two species of epizoic amphipods and the gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus.
  • Parasites of the bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus.
  • Photoreceptor ultrastructure of the amphipod, Cyamus ceti (Linne, 1758), an ectoparasite of bowhead, right and gray whales.
  • Stable-isotope and electron-microscopic evidence that cyamids (Crustacea: Amphipoda) feed on whale skin.
  • Prevalence and Abundance of Cyamid 'Whale Lice' (Cyamus ceti) on Subsistence Harvested Bowhead Whales (Balaena mysticetus).

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