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Cyamidae Rafinesque, 1815 
AphiaID: 158318

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Amphipoda (Order) > Senticaudata (Suborder) > Corophiida (Infraorder) > Caprellidira (Parvorder) > Caprelloidea (Superfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Caprelloidea
Synonymised
taxa
  Cyamida (Status revised by Myers & Lowry (2003))
Sources  basis of record: MYERS A.A. & LOWRY J.K. (2003). A phylogeny and a new classification of the Corophiidea Leach, 1814 (Amphipoda). Journal of Crustacean Biology, 23: 443-485. , available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1651/0278-0372(2003)023[0443:APAANC]2.0.CO;2 [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English whale lice (from synonym)  [details]
Swedish vallöss  [details]
Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Genus Cyamus Latreille, 1796
Genus Isocyamus Gervais & van Beneden, 1859
Genus Neocyamus Margolis, 1955
Genus Platycyamus Lütken, 1870
Genus Scutocyamus Lincoln & Hurley, 1974
Genus Syncyamus Bowman, 1955
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158318
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-25 08:24:16Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2005-12-27 19:49:34Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2007-01-29 08:28:04Z  changed  De Broyer, Claude
2007-01-31 11:22:03Z  changed  De Broyer, Claude
  
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  Citation: De Broyer, C. (2013). Cyamidae Rafinesque, 1815. In: Lowry, J. (2013) World Amphipoda database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158318 on 2013-05-21
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