Definition of Cyamids. Meaning of Cyamids. Synonyms of Cyamids

- A whale louse is a crustacean of the family Cyamidae. Despite the name, it is not a true louse (which are insects), but rather is related to the skeleton...
- called callosities. The distribution of callosities and the light colored cyamids that occupy the callosities forms a unique pattern for individual whales...
- terrestrial vertebrates as lice and mites; marine parasites such as copepods and cyamid amphipods; monogeneans; and many species of nematodes, fungi, protozoans...
- and diseased individuals are often infested with a different species of cyamid, which gives the callosities on those whales an orange hue rather than white...
- cyamids or whale lice, which feed on the right whale's skin as these small crustaceans cannot survive in open water. The relationship between cyamids...
- skin) on its head. The callosities appear white due to large colonies of cyamids (whale lice). Each individual has a unique callosities pattern. In 2016...
- belly. The right whale's callosities appear white due to large colonies of cyamids (whale lice). It is almost indistinguishable from the closely related North...
- placed into the genus Cyamus as Cyamus rhytinae. It was the only species of cyamid amphipod to be reported inhabiting a sirenian. Steller also identified an...
- a ****anese expedition along the ice edge, one-fifth was infested with cyamids (those from one whale were identified as Cyamus balaenopterae). Several...
- callosities—roughened patches of epidermis covered with thousands of small light-colored cyamids. The callosities appear in patches on its head immediately behind the blowholes...