New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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Scutocyamus antipodensis n.sp. (Amphipoda: Cyamidae) on Hector's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori) from New Zealand

Roger J. Lincoln*

and

Desmond E. Hurley

N.Z. Oceanographic Institute, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, P.O. Box 12 346, Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract The whale-louse Scutocyamus antipodensis n.sp., ectoparasitic on Hector's dolphin, Cephalorhynchus hectori (van Beneden), is described and figured from material collected in Cloudy Bay, Cook Strait, New Zealand. Morphologically the new species is very close to S. parvus Lincoln & Hurley, the type and only other species of the genus, known only from the North Sea. However, the two species differ in the detailed structure and spinosity of the body and pereopods.

Keywords Scutocyamus antipodensis; Crustacea; Amphipoda; Cyamidae; whale-louse; parasites; Cetacea; Delphinidae; Cephalorhynchus hectori.

New Zealand Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research, 1980, 14(3): 295-301
Received 1 April 1980; revision received 10 June 1980

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