Chelonibia caretta Spengler, 1790

Persian Gulf. Utinomi (1969) from Khark Island in Iran (Fig. 1); attached to the sea turtle Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) .

Gulf of Oman. No record.

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