Conchoderma hunteri ( Owen, 1830 )

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

Conchoderma hunteri ( Owen, 1830)

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Material examined. ZUTC-cirri 1219.

Persian Gulf. No record.

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

General distribution and habitat. Indo-Pacific; attached to subtidal ropes, sea snakes and buoys ( Chan et al. 2009).

Descriptive features and remarks. Capitulum brown with five reduced valves, scutum trilobed. Largest specimen with capitular width 3.5 mm, capitular length 5.0 mm.

The specimens were collected from a sea snake at Chabahar (25° 04'N, 61° 24'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.