Location: Skin. 



Localities: Alaska; British Columbia; Cali- 

 fornia. 



Recorded by: Margolis (1959); Leung 

 (1965). 



Remarks: The record from the blue whale 

 (California) was previously unpublished and 

 is based on a collection obtained for identi- 

 fication from D. W. Rice, National Marine 

 Fisheries Service, Seattle. 



Cyamus boopis Liitken, 1870 



Syns.: Cyamus stiff usus Dall, 1872. 



Paracyamus boopis (Liitken, 1870) 

 Sars, 1895. 



Host: Megaptera novaeangliae - humpback 

 whale. 



Location: Skin. 



Localities: Alaska; British Columbia; Cali- 

 fornia. 



Recorded by: Dall (1872a, b); Scammon 

 (1874); Cornwall (1928) ; Scheffer (1939); 

 Margolis (1954b, 1955a); Rice (1963); 

 Leung (1965). 



Remarks: For review of synonymy and tax- 

 onomy see Margolis (1954a, b; 1955a). 



Cyamus catodontis Margolis, 1954 

 Host: Physeter catodon - sperm whale. 

 Location: Skin. 

 Locality: British Columbia. 

 Recorded by: Margolis (1954b, 1955a); 

 Leung (1965). 



Cyamus ceti (Linnaeus, 1758) Lamarck, 1801 

 Syn.: Cyamus mysticeti Liitken, 1870; 

 Dall, 1872. 



Hosts: Balaena mysticetus - bowhead whale; 

 Eschrichtius gibbosus - gray whale. 



Location: Skin. 



Localities: Alaska; California. 



Recorded by: Dall (1872b); Scammon 

 (1874); Rice (1963); Leung (1965). 



Cyamus erraticus R. de Vauzeme, 1834 



Host: Balaena glacialis - black right whale. 



Location: Skin. 



Localities: Alaska; British Columbia. 



Recorded by: Margolis (1955a). 



Remarks: The Alaskan record is based on 



specimens received for identification from D. 



W. Rice, National Marine Fisheries Service, 



Seattle, and has not been published previ- 

 ously. 



Cyamus gracilis R. de Vauzeme, 1834 

 Syn.: Cyamus gracilis Dall, 1874. 



Host: Balaena glacialis - black right whale. 



Location: Skin. 



Locality: Alaska. 



Recorded by: Dall (1874); Leung (1965). 



Remarks: Liitken (1887) re-examined Dall's 

 specimens and found them to be identical 

 with Cyamus gracilis R. de Vauzeme, 1834. 



Cyamus kessleri Brandt, 1872 



Host: Eschrichtius gibbosus - gray whale. 



Location: Skin. 



Locality: California. 



Recorded by: Leung (1965). 



Remarks: This whale-louse has been reported 



from Arctic Alaska (Hurley and Mohr, 1957; 



Leung, 1965). 



Cyamus ovalis R. de Vauzeme, 1834 

 Syn.: Cyamus tentator Dall, 1874. 



Host: Balaena glacialis - black right whale. 



Location: Skin. 



Locality: Alaska. 



Recorded by: Dall (1874). 



Remarks: Liitken (1887) re-examined some 

 of Dall's specimens of C. tentator and found 

 them to be identical with C. ovalis. 



Cyamus scammoni Dall, 1872 



Host: Eschrichtius gibbosus - gray whale. 



Location: Skin. 



Localities: Alaska; British Columbia; Cali- 

 fornia. 



Recorded by: Dall (1872a); Scammon 

 (1874); Liitken (1887); Margolis (1954b, 

 1955a); Rice (1963); Leung (1965). 



Remarks: The Alaskan record was previously 

 unpublished and is based on material col- 

 lected at St. Lawrence Island in the Bering 

 Sea by Dr. F. H. Fay, Arctic Health Research 

 Laboratory, College, Alaska. Hurley and 

 Mohr (1957) and Leung (1965) reported 

 this species from the Arctic coast of Alaska. 



Neocyamus physeteris (Pouchet, 1888) Mar- 

 golis, 1955 

 Host: Physeter catodon - sperm whale. 

 Location : Skin. 



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