Platylepas hexastylos ( Fabricius, 1798 )

Shahdadi, Adnan, Sari, Alireza & Naderloo, Reza, 2014, A checklist of the barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Thoracica) of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman with nine new records, Zootaxa 3784 (3), pp. 201-223 : 206

Platylepas hexastylos ( Fabricius, 1798)

( Figs 3a , b)

Material examined. ZUTC-cirri 1218.

Persian Gulf. No record.

Gulf of Oman. New record from the Gulf of Oman.

General distribution and habitat. Indo-Pacific; attached to sea turtles ( Chan et al. 2009).

Descriptive features and remarks. Shell with obvious external growth lines ( Fig. 3a ), median sulcus clear from ventral view ( Fig. 3 b), labrum with three teeth on each side. Largest specimen with basal diameter 8.0 mm. The specimens were found attached to the front limb scales of the green turtle Chelonia mydas from Gwatr (25° 16'N, 60° 44'E) ( Fig. 1 ).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Map of sampling sites of the species recorded in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.

FIGURE 3. a. Platylepas hexastylos (Fabricius, 1794), ZUTC-cirri 1218, Gwatr, Gulf of Oman, dorsal view; b. Platylepas hexastylos, ventral view; c. Chelonibia testudinaria (Linnaeus, 1758), ZUTC- cirri 1144, Nayband, Persian Gulf, dorsal view; d. C. patula (Ranzani, 1818), ZUTC-cirri 1142, Minab, Strait of Hormoz, with polygonal orifice; dorsal view; e. C. patula, ZUTC- cirri 1144, from Bandar-Lengeh, Persian Gulf, with oval orifice, dorsal view; f. C. patula, from Dayyer, on crab Portunus segnis (Forskål, 1775).