Lepas anserifera Linnaeus, 1767

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 : 203

Lepas anserifera Linnaeus, 1767

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Material examined. ZUTC-cirri 1154, 1155, 1156, 1157, 1158, 1159, 1160.

Persian Gulf. First record for the Persian Gulf.

Gulf of Oman. First record for the Gulf of Oman.

General distribution and habitat. Cosmopolitan in tropical to temperate regions; on floating objects ( Jones et al. 2000).

Descriptive features and remarks. Specimens with four filamentary appendages on each side, three on base of CI and one on prosoma. Largest specimen with baso-apical length 38.77 mm.

During this study, the specimens were collected from various floating objects consisting of internal shells of cuttlefish, wood, bottles, aluminium sheets and floating plastic canteens at Minab (26° 31'N, 57° 04'E), Bandar- Lengeh (26° 36'N, 54° 54'E), Chabahar (25° 16'N, 60°44'E) and Jask (25° 35'N, 58° 02'E) ( Fig. 1 ).

Figures

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

FIGURE 2. a. Ibla cumingi Darwin, 1852, ZUTC-cirri 1290, Qeshm Island, Persian Gulf; lateral view; b. Conchoderma hunteri (Owen, 1830), ZUTC-cirri 1219, Chabahar, Gulf of Oman, lateral view; c. Lepas anserifera Linnaeus, 1767, ZUTC- Cirri 1154, Portuguese Castle, Chabahar, Gulf of Oman, lateral view; d. Lithotrya valentiana Reinhardt, 1850, ZUTC-cirri 1264, Chabahar, Gulf of Oman, lateral view; e. the same specimen, rostrum.