Crustacés parasites et épizoïtes du cachalot, physeter catodon linnaeus, 1758 (Cetacea, Odontoceti), dans le golfe du lion (Méditerranée occidentale)

Abstract

The authors point out for the first time, fixation of the Cirriped Conchoderma virgatum (Spengler, 1790) on an Amphipod Cyamid parasite of a young sperm-whale, Physeter catodon Linnaeus, 1758, stranded on the gulf of Lion coast (Western Mediterranean). Using the scanning electron microscope, they furnish precisions on the morphology and they furnish some observations concerning reproduction and biogeography of this Amphipod, Neocyamus physeteris (Pouchet, 1888).