Ibla cumingi Darwin, 1852

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 : 202

Ibla cumingi Darwin, 1852

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Material examined. ZUTC-cirri 1290.

Persian Gulf. Yan et al. (2005) Iran, from an unknown locality; present study.

Gulf of Oman. Utinomi (1969) from an unknown locality.

General distribution and habitat. Indo-West Pacific; intertidal crevices, such as rock cracks and fissures between oyster and barnacle shells ( Jones et al. 2000; Yan et al. 2005).

Descriptive features and remarks. Peduncle clothed in chitinous hairs; peduncle and four chitinous capitular plates light brown. Largest specimen with capitular width 5.27 mm, capitular length 3.60 mm, peduncular length 8.59 mm.

Specimens were collected from intertidal rocks at Qeshm Island (26° 54'S, 56° 09' N) ( 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.