Syncyamus Bowman 1955

• Main Authors: Iwasa-Arai, Tammy, Carvalho, Vitor Luz, Serejo, Cristiana Silveira
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Cyamidae; Syncyamus; Killer Whale
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4747798; https://zenodo.org/record/4747798

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. : 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 : {"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."]}