Chelonibia testudinaria ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

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 : 207

Chelonibia testudinaria ( Linnaeus, 1758)

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Material examined. ZUTC-cirri 1144.

Persian Gulf. Utinomi (1969) from Khark Island in Iran ( Fig. 1 ); present study.

Gulf of Oman. No record.

General distribution and habitat. Tropical Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific; attached to sea turtles ( Jones et al. 2000).

Descriptive features and remarks. In all specimens radii notched on both sides ( Fig. 3 c). Largest specimen with basal diameter 40.22 mm, height 9.0 mm, orifice diameter 11.11 mm.

The specimens were found attached to the carapace of the green turtle Chelonia mydas in Nayband (27° 23'N, 52° 39'E) and Qeshm Island (26° 41'N, 55° 42'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).