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Definition of Cyamus
1. Noun. Whale lice.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Amphipoda, Order Amphipoda
Member holonyms: Whale Louse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyamus
Literary usage of Cyamus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the by Charles Spence Bate (1862)
"BM cyamus abbreviate, Say, Jouen. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. ip 393. Cephalon and
first joint of the ..."
2. List of the Specimens of the British Animals in the Collection of the by John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray, Adam White, British Museum (Natural History), James Francis Stephens, Frederick Smith, Henry Denny, Henry Tibbats Stainton, Edwin Shepherd (1848)
"cyamus CETI. Common Whale-louse. 23 ; M. Edw. Crust. iii. p. 113. Oniscus ceti,
Linn. Syst. ... cyamus gracilis, Rouss. Ann. Sc. Nat. 2nd. str. it 8, f. ..."
3. Manual of the Natural History, Geology, and Physics of Greenland, and the by Thomas Rupert Jones, Great Britain Admiralty (1875)
"cyamus ceti, Kroyer, Nat. Tidsskr., IV., p. 476, t. 5, f. 63-70 ; Sp. Bate, ...
Lutken, 1. c., p. 274, t. 4, f. 8. Obs.—~With the preceding. 128. cyamus ..."
4. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1839)
"Latreille brought the forms under one genus, cyamus, with the following subdivisions
and ... form the subgenus cyamus, Latr. ..."
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