Isocyamus, GERVAIS & VAN BENEDEN, 1859
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ISOCYAMUS GERVAIS & VAN BENEDEN, 1859 View in CoL
Diagnosis: Antenna 1 with a continuous band of setae on terminal article; antenna 2 longer than terminal article of antenna 1. Lacinia mobilis of right mandible with teeth; maxilliped inner lobes rounded. Accessory gills present, usually sausage shaped or subtriangular, large; spinelike process present on the base of lateral gills.
Type species: Isocyamus delphinii (Guérin-Méneville, 1836) .
Remarks: Isocyamus is found in multiple host taxa. Isocyamus delphinii is the most widespread species, found in various delphinids, including the orca O. orca and bottlenose dolphin T. truncatus ( Wardle et al., 2003) . Isocyamus indopacetus Iwasa-Arai & Serejo, 2017 is found on the Longman’s beaked whale I. pacificus , one of the least studied cetaceans (Iwasa-Arai et al., 2017).
Species: Isocyamus delphinii (Guérin-Méneville, 1836) , I. antarcticensis Vlasova, 1982 , I. deltobrachium Sedlak-Weinstein, 1992 , I. kogiae Sedlak-Weinstein, 1992 , I. indopacetus Iwasa-Arai & Serejo, 2017 .
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