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Syncyamus Bowman 1955

Description

Genus Syncyamus Bowman, 1955

Diagnosis

Antenna 1 short, 4-segmented, terminal article sparsely setose. Lower lip inner lobes fused. Maxilla 2 outer lobes fused. Maxillipeds inner lobes triangular, fused basally, outer lobes lacking, palps lacking. Gnathopod 1 palm short, dactylus very recurved. Gnathopod 2 propodus robust, palm short. Pereonites 3 and 4 short, with uniramous lateral gills, sausage-shaped. Accessory gills present, sausage-shaped, spinelike processes on the base of lateral gills absent. Oostegites plates 3–4 boot shaped.

Type species

Syncyamus pseudorcae Bowman, 1955.

Notes

Published as part of Iwasa-Arai, Tammy, Carvalho, Vitor Luz & Serejo, Cristiana Silveira, 2017, Updates on Cyamidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda): redescriptions of Cyamus monodontis Lütken, 1870 and Cyamus nodosus Lütken, 1861, a new species of Isocyamus, and new host records for Syncyamus ilheusensis Haney, De Almeida and Reis, 2004, pp. 2225-2245 in Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) (J. Nat. Hist.) 51 (37 - 38) on page 2241, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2017.1365965, http://zenodo.org/record/4746859

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cyamidae
Genus
Syncyamus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Bowman
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Syncyamus Bowman, 1955 sec. Iwasa-Arai, Carvalho & Serejo, 2017

References

  • Bowman TE. 1955. A new genus and species of whale-louse (Amphipoda: Cyamidae) from the false killer whale. Bull Mar Sci. 5: 315 - 320.