R & C | MAMMALOGY

Martin, Joel W. and J. E. Heyning. 1999. First record of Isocyamus kogiae Sedlak-Weinstein, 1992 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Cyamidae) from the eastern Pacific, with comments on morphological characters, a key to the genera of the Cyamidae, and a checklist of cyamids and their hosts. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. 98:26-38.

Abstract:

The cyamid amphipod species Isocyamus kogiae Sedlak-Weinstein, 1992, is reported for the first time from southern California, extending the known range of the species from Moreton Island, Queensland, Australia, to the north-eastern Pacific. Additional descriptive notes are provided based on a single adult male taken from a pygmy sperm whale, Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838), stranded near San Diego, California. Morphological differences between this specimen and the description of the type series are discussed. A revised key to the six currently recognized genera of the family Cyamidae is provided, as
well as a checklist of all described species of the family, their cetacean hosts, and the ranges of those hosts.