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

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3784.3.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6143822

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Chelonibia testudinaria ( Linnaeus, 1758 )
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Chelonibia testudinaria ( Linnaeus, 1758)

( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3. a c)

Material examined. ZUTC-cirri 1144.

Persian Gulf. Utinomi (1969) from Khark Island in Iran ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 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 View FIGURE 3. a 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 View FIGURE 1 ).

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