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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 2013, 93(1), 143–182. # Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 2012 doi:10.1017/S0025315412000847 A checklist of turtle and whale barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica: Coronuloidea) ryota hayashi1,2 1International Coastal Research Center, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5, Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba 277-8564 Japan, 2Marine Biology and Ecology Research Program, Extremobiosphere Research Center, Japan Agency for Marine–Earth Science and Technology A checklist of published records of coronuloid barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica: Coronuloidea) attached to marine vertebrates is presented, with 44 species (including 15 fossil species) belonging to 14 genera (including 3 fossil genera) and 3 families recorded. Also included is information on their geographical distribution and the hosts with which they occur. Keywords: checklist, turtle barnacles, whale barnacles, Chelonibiidae, Emersoniidae, Coronulidae, Platylepadidae, host and distribution Submitted 10 May 2012; accepted 16 May 2012; first published online 10 August 2012 INTRODUCTION Superorder THORACICA Darwin, 1854 Order SESSILIA Lamarck, 1818 In this paper, a checklist of barnacles of the superfamily Suborder BALANOMORPHA Pilsbry, 1916 Coronuloidea occurring on marine animals is presented. Superfamily CORONULOIDEA Newman & Ross, 1976 The systematic arrangement used herein follows Newman Family CHELONIBIIDAE Pilsbry, 1916 (1996) rather than Ross & Frick (2011) for reasons taken up in Hayashi (2012) in some detail. The present author Genus Chelonibia Leach, 1817 deems the subfamilies of the Cheonibiidae (Chelonibiinae, Chelonibia caretta (Spengler, 1790) Emersoniinae and Protochelonibiinae) proposed by Harzhauser et al. (2011), as well as those included of Ross & Lepas caretta Spengler, 1790: 185, plate 6, figure 5. Frick (2007, 2011), to be unnecessary because the family Astrolepas testudinaria Gray, 1825: 105. Chelonibiidae has only three genera (Chelonibia, Emersonius Balanus chelytrypetes Hinks, 1840: 333. and Protochelonibia), and they are ignored herein. Species Chelonobia caretta Darwin, 1854: 394, plate 14, figure 2. within each genus and the references within each species are Chelonibia caretta Pilsbry, 1916: 267, plate 63, figure 5, arranged alphabetically. The original naming combinations 5a.—Hayashi, 2012: 109, figures 2 & 15b; plate 1b. and known synonyms are listed and each species is entered under the current binomen, followed by the author’s name, date of publication and page number. The geographical distri- references butions are recorded for the hosts and their general geographi- Anderson, 1994: 297; Bacon, 1976: 34; Barnard, 1924: 93; cal occurence where possible (Table 1). The fossil species are Borradaile, 1903: 443; Broch, 1924a: 16; Bugoni et al., 2001: 7; indicated by † and fossil records of Coronuloidea (including Caine, 1986: 19; Daniel, 1955: 32; Darwin, 1854: 394; extant species) are listed by geological age and location Dawydoff, 1952: 129; Dobbs & Landry, 2004: 674; Farrapeira, (Table 2). When uncertainty regarding a species record 2010: 212; Frick & Ross, 2002: 10; Frick et al., 1998: 213; exists, the species has been recorded with a query and a note. 2003a: 9; 2003b: 19; 2011: 638; Fuller et al., 2010: 1743; The literature list at the end of this paper includes the com- Gittings et al., 1986: 3; Gonza´lez et al., 2012: 132; Gramentz, plete field of scientific papers regarding the superfamily 1988: 33; Gray, 1825: 105; Gruvel, 1905a: 266; Hayashi, 2012: Coronuloidea (including taxonomy, phylogeny, ecology, 109; Hincks, 1840: 333; Hiro, 1936a: 61; 1937a: 69; Holthius, biology, palaeontology and natural history) and some preteri- 1952: 77; Innocenti, 2006: 6; Jones, 2003: 483; 2004: 122; tions in the catalogue of species by Newman & Ross (1976) are 2010: 208; Jones et al., 1990: 11; 2000: 260; Kobayashi, 2000: also compensated for in this list. 91; Kolosva´ry, 1943: 99; Korschelt, 1933: 13; Limpus et al., 1983a: 192; Loop et al., 1995: 246; Matsuura & Nakamura, 1993: 1803; Monroe, 1981: 237; Monroe & Limpus, 1979: CHECKLIST 199; Mo¨rch, 1852: 67; Nilsson-Cantell, 1938: 14; Pfaller et al., 2006: 3; 2008: 1096; Pilsbry, 1916: 267; Rawson et al., 2003: Class MAXILLOPODA Dahl, 1956 2699; Ritchie, 1924: 166; Ross, 1963b: 223; Ross & Frick, Subclass CIRRIPEDIA Burmeister, 1834 2011: 61; Scha¨rer, 2003: 88; Spengler, 1790: 185; Stubbings, 1967: 297; Utinomi, 1969: 92; Wells, 1966: 84; Weltner, 1897: Corresponding author: 254; 1910: 528; Wirtz et al., 2006: 209; Withers, 1928a: 391; R. Hayashi 1929: 567; Young, 1991: 191; 1998: 271; Zullo, 1963: 13; 1982: Email: [email protected] 2; Zullo & Bleakney, 1966: 164. 143 144 ryota hayashi Table 1. Modern species of Coronuloidea indicating the host species and its collection locality. Locality records are arranged from Asia, Oceania, Indies, Mediterranean, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Atlantic, North America, South America to Pacific area. Species Host Locality References Chelonibia caretta (Spengler, 1790) Loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Hayashi, 2012 (Linnaeus, 1758) Queensland, Australia (Heron Island; Mon Repos Beach; Monroe & Limpus, 1979; Jones, 2010 North Reef; Wistari Reef) Ouddorp, The Netherlands Holthuis, 1952 Alagadi Beach, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Fuller et al., 2010 North-east Atlantic, Madeira, Portugal Wirtz et al., 2006 Scotland Ritchie, 1924 Greece (Zacharo; Zakynthos); Italy (Lampedusa) Gramentz, 1988 Cape of Good Hope, South Africa Pilsbry, 1916 Around Azores Frick et al., 2003b USA (Delaware Bay, New Jersey; Wassaw Island, Georgia; Pilsbry, 1916; Zullo & Bleakney, 1966; Wells, 1966; Caine, Cape Cod, Massachusetts; off the south-west pass of the 1986; Gittings et al., 1986; Frick et al., 1998; 2000; Frick Mississippi River Delta; North Padre Island, Texas; & Ross, 2002; Rawson et al., 2003; Pfaller et al., 2006; Canaveral National Sea Shore, Florida; Daytona Beach, Pfaller et al., 2008 Florida; St Teresa, Florida) Toco Depot, Trinidad and Tobago Bacon, 1976 Brazil Pilsbry, 1916; Bugoni et al., 2001 No locality records Ernst & Barbour, 1972 Green turtle, Chelonia mydas Off Madras Coast, India Daniel, 1955 (Linnaeus, 1758) Alagadi Beach, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Fuller et al., 2010 South of Kharg, Iran Utinomi, 1969 Ile Europa, Mozambique, Mozambique Weltner, 1910 Table Bay, South Africa Barnard, 1924 Mauretania Broch, 1924b; Stubbings, 1967 USA (off the south-west pass of the Mississippi River Gittings et al., 1986 Delta; North Padre Island, Texas; St Teresa, Florida) Hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Hayashi, 2012 imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766) Ream, Cambodia Dawydoff, 1952 Australia (Boydong Island; Wistari Reef, Queensland; Monroe & Limpus, 1979; Limpus et al., 1983; Loop et al., Campbell Island; Milman Island, Great Barrier Reef; 1995; Dobbs & Landry, 2004; Jones, 2004; Jones, 2010 Dampier Archipelago) Republic of Palau Hiro, 1937a Minikoi Island, India Borradaire, 1903 Cuba Kobayashi, 2000 (as Chelonibia sp.) Mona Island, Puerto Rico Scha¨rer, 2003 Antigua Frick et al., 2003a C. mydas or E. imbricata Tropical Atlantic; Indo-West Pacific Jones et al., 2000 Unidentified sea turtle, Chelonia sp. Saigon, Viet Nam Pilsbry, 1916 No host records Torres Strait Weltner, 1897; Pilsbry, 1916 Massana, New Guinea Weltner, 1897 Northern and Western Australia Darwin, 1854; Jones, 2003 Maldives Nilsson-Cantell, 1938 Mediterranean Kolosvary, 1943 Massaua, Hagere Ertra Pilsbry, 1916 West coast of Africa Darwin, 1854 Cape of Good Hope, South Africa Pilsbry, 1916 St Thomas, United States Virgin Islands Pilsbry, 1916 Venezuela Pilsbry, 1916 Chelonibia manati Gruvel, 1903 African manatee, Trichechus Joal, Senegal Stubbings, 1965 senegalensis Link, 1795 Congo coast Gruvel, 1903; Pislbry, 1916 Caribbean manatee, Trichechus Caribbean Sea, Mexico Morales-Vera et al.,2008 manatus Linnaeus, 1758 Puerto Rico Mianucci-Giannoni et al., 1999 Green turtle, Chelonia mydas Atlantic Korschelt, 1933 (as Chelonibia ramosa) (Linnaeus, 1758) Diamondback terrapin, Malaclemys Merritt Island, Florida, USA Seigel, 1983 terrapin (Schoepf, 1793) No host records Texas, USA Gittings et al., 1986 Chelonibia manati crenatibasis Pilsbry, 1916 Probably from loggerhead turtle, No locality record Pilsbry, 1916 Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) Chelonibia manati lobatobasis Pilsbry, 1916 Loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta Florida, USA (Osprey; Bald Point) Pilsbry, 1916; Wells, 1966 (Linnaeus, 1758) Diamondback terrapin, Malaclemys Merritt Island, Florida, USA Seigel, 1983 terrapin (Schoepf, 1793) Chelonibia patula (Ranzani, 1818) Blue crab, Callinectes sapidus Turkey, Mediterranean Bakır et al.,2010 Rathbun, 1896 Cameroon Pilsbry, 1916 Gulf of Mexico Gittings et al., 1986; Spears et al., 1994 USA (Beaufort, North Carolina; Delaware Bay, Delaware; Pilsbry, 1916; McDougall, 1943; Pearse, 1947; 145 William & checklistofturtleandwhalebarnacles Virginia; Tarpon; Alligator Harbor; Seahorse Key) Porter, 1964; Wells, 1966; Crisp, 1983; Gittings et al., 1986; Gannon, 1990; Spears et al., 1994; Key et al., 1997 Sharptooth swim crab, Callinectis Off Landing Point, Gambia Stubbings, 1967 marginatus (Milne-Edwards, 1861) Blue crab, Callinectes danae Smith, Ubatsuba Bay, Sa˜o Paulo, Brazil Mantelatto et al.,2003 1869 Blue crab, Callinectes ornatus Ordway, Ubatsuba Bay, Sa˜o Paulo, Brazil Mantelatto et al.,2003 1863 Blue crab, Callinectes amnicola Off Lagos Coast, Nigeria Lawel-Are
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    Remarkable convergent evolution in specialized parasitic Thecostraca (Crustacea) Pérez-Losada, Marcos; Høeg, Jens Thorvald; Crandall, Keith A Published in: BMC Biology DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-15 Publication date: 2009 Document version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Citation for published version (APA): Pérez-Losada, M., Høeg, J. T., & Crandall, K. A. (2009). Remarkable convergent evolution in specialized parasitic Thecostraca (Crustacea). BMC Biology, 7(15), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-7-15 Download date: 25. Sep. 2021 BMC Biology BioMed Central Research article Open Access Remarkable convergent evolution in specialized parasitic Thecostraca (Crustacea) Marcos Pérez-Losada*1, JensTHøeg2 and Keith A Crandall3 Address: 1CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Portugal, 2Comparative Zoology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark and 3Department of Biology and Monte L Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA Email: Marcos Pérez-Losada* - [email protected]; Jens T Høeg - [email protected]; Keith A Crandall - [email protected] * Corresponding author Published: 17 April 2009 Received: 10 December 2008 Accepted: 17 April 2009 BMC Biology 2009, 7:15 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-7-15 This article is available from: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/7/15 © 2009 Pérez-Losada et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.