One crawled over the dolphin's back: Unusual record of the whale louse Cyamus boopis (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Cyamidae) on the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

Tammy Iwasa-Arai,Fabíola Da Silva Santana,Carla Beatriz Barbosa,Max Rondon Werneck

doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2021.10.002

One crawled over the dolphin's back: Unusual record of the whale louse Cyamus boopis (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Cyamidae) on the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

Tammy Iwasa-Arai, Fabíola Da Silva Santana + Show 2 more

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2021.10.002

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Journal: Zoologische Jahrbücher.	Publication Date: Oct 16, 2021
Citations: 1

Affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto Argonauta

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The host specific whale louse Cyamus boopis Lütken, 1870, commonly found on humpback whales, is reported for the first time from a stranded bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus (Montagu 1821). This is the first record of C. boopis on a dolphin species, and the second record of C. boopis outside humpback whales. Cyamid unusual records mainly reflect cetacean interspecific interactions.

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