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VOLUME 54 Part 3 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM BRISBANE 30 DECEMBER 2010 © Queensland Museum PO Box 3300, South Brisbane 4101, Australia Phone 06 7 3840 7555 Fax 06 7 3846 1226 Email [email protected] Website www.qm.qld.gov.au National Library of Australia card number ISSN 0079-8835 NOTE Papers published in this volume and in all previous volumes of the Memoirs of the Queensland Museum may be reproduced for scientific research, individual study or other educational purposes. Properly acknowledged quotations may be made but queries regarding the republication of any papers should be addressed to the Editor in Chief. Copies of the journal can be purchased from the Queensland Museum Shop. A Guide to Authors is displayed at the Queensland Museum web site www.qm.qld.gov.au/organisation/publications/memoirs/guidetoauthors.pdf A Queensland Government Project Typeset at the Queensland Museum The littoral and shallow-water barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia) of south-eastern Queensland Diana S. JONES The Western Australian Museum, 49 Kew Street, Welshpool, Western Australia 6106. Email: [email protected] Citation: Jones, D.S. 2010 12 30. The littoral and shallow-water barnacles (Crustacea: Cirri pedia) of south-eastern Queensland. In, Davie, P.J.F. & Phillips, J.A. (Eds), Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop, The Marine Fauna and Flora of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 54(3): 199-233. Brisbane. ISSN 0079-8835. ABSTRACT Seventy-four littoral and shallow-water (0–100 m) barnacle species from south-eastern Queensland are documented. Data from new collections of littoral and shallow-water barnacle species made during the February 2005 workshop, are combined with older SE Queensland barnacle collection data from Australian museums. South-eastern Queensland represents a transitional area between southern temperate and tropical zones and this transitional position is reflected in the composition of the barnacle fauna. The number of Australian endemic species (12) is relatively high, reflecting the influence of the southern fauna, but the fauna is dominated by species with Indo-west Pacific (25), cosmopolitan (22) and, to a lesser extent, Indo-Japanese (9) affinities, with Australasian (2), western Pacific (2) and Indo-Australasian (1) species minor components. One new species, Arcalepas brucei Jones & Morton, 2009, was collected during the Workshop. Neonrosella subgen. nov. is proposed to replace Rosella Ross & Perreault, 1999, which is preoccupied. q Cirripedia, Queensland, checklist, biogeography, littoral, shallow-water. First collections of Australian barnacles were reports. For example, Austrobalanus imperator made from temperate waters by the early French (Hoek 1883; Challenger Expedition, 1873–1876; expeditions of discovery at the begin ning of the as Balanus imperator Darwin, 1854); Amphibalanus 19th century. However, Darwin’s monographs amphitrite (Weltner 1897; Ham burg Expedition, (1852; 1854) first documented the barnacles of 1905; as Balanus amphitrite var. communis Darwin, temperate Australian waters (Jones 1991). Darwin 1854); and Striatobalanus amaryllis (Hoek 1907; (1854) made collections and records of barnacles 1913; Siboga Expedition 1899–1900, as Balanus from Moreton Bay, south-eastern Queensland, amaryllis Darwin, 1854). In 1869, MacDonald describing two new species, Chthamalus antennatus described an 'apparently new genus of minute sp. nov. and Austrobalanus imperator sp. nov. (as parasitic cirripede', Para dolepas neptuni (now Balanus). He also recorded Tetraclita rosea (Krauss, recognized as Octolasmis n. neptuni), on the gills 1848), now placed in Tesseropora; Platylepas bissex- and respiratory appendages of the swimming lobata (de Blainville, 1824), now recognised as a crab Portunus pelagicus (as Neptunus pelagicus synonym of Platylepas hexastylos (Fabricius, 1798), Linnaeus) in Moreton Bay. from a dugong, and the sponge barnacle, Acasta Nineteen barnacle species from the rocky shores sulcata Lamarck, 1818. and islands of Queensland were listed by Endean During the late 19th and early part of the 20th et al. (1956a, 1956b), including nine from south- - century, knowledge of the Australian cirripede eastern Queensland waters: Ibla cumingii Darwin, fauna was increased, often through investig - 1852; I. quadrivalvis (Cuvier, 1817); Catophragmus ations by various expeditions, and barnacles polymerus Darwin, 1854; Chthamalus antennatus collec ted from south-eastern Queensland waters Darwin, 1854; Austrobalanus imperator (Darwin, were again briefly detailed in some of their 1854); Tetraclita purpurascens (Wood, 1815); Tessero- Memoirs of the Queensland Museum — Nature 2010 54(3) www.qm.qld.gov.au 199 Jones pora rosea (Krauss, 1848); Striatobalanus amaryllis METHODS AND MATERIALS (Darwin, 1854); and Austromegabalanus nigrescens Specimens were collected at low tide by hand (Lamarck, 1818). from a wide variety of habitats (e.g. rocks, In a review of all intertidal species of the mangrove trees, hard substrata and animate family Chthamalidae known from Australian hosts). Subtidal samples were collected by SCUBA shores, Pope (1965) documented five species or by dredging. from south-eastern Queensland waters: Cato - Cirripedes contained in the collections of the phrag mus polymerus Darwin, 1854 (now in Cato - Queensland Museum and other Austra lian phrag midae), Caudoeuraphia caudata Pilsbry, 1916 museums, were reviewed for records from south- (as Chthamalus caudatus), Microeuraphia withersi eastern Queensland. Museum acronyms are: Pilsbry, 1916 (as Chthamalus withersi), Chtham- AM, Australian Museum, Sydney; NMV, Museum alus antennatus Darwin, 1854 and C. malayensis Victoria, Melbourne; NTM, Museum and Art Pilsbry, 1916. Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; QM, Stephenson et al. (1970: 492) recorded three Queensland Museum, Brisbane; SAM, South species, Smilium peronii (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834), Australian Museum, Adelaide; WAM, Western Striatobalanus amaryllis (Darwin, 1854) and Australian Museum, Perth. Amphi balanus amphitrite (Darwin, 1854), in a The general arrangement of taxa follows survey of the macrobenthos of Moreton Bay. Newman (1996). Genera are listed alphabetically Seventeen barnacle species associated with within families, and species alphabetically within turtles in southern Queensland were recorded genera. Primary synonyms and some key by Monroe & Limpus (1979), including three secondary literature are included. new species, Platylepas coriacea sp. nov., Stomato - Abbreviations used in the text are as follows: lepas eretmochelys sp. nov. and Tubicinella [now GAB, Great Australian Bight; GBR, Great Barrier Chelolepas] cheloniae sp. nov. Monroe (1981) discus- Reef, Queensland; NSW, New South Wales; sed shell morphology, growth and function and NT, Northern Territory; Qld, Queensland; SA, their bearing on subfamily classification in the South Australia; Tas., Tasmania; Vic., Victoria; Coronulidae. Various ecologi cal studies in southern WA, Western Australia. Queensland have also documented distributions of intertidal barnacles (e.g. Coates & McKillup SYSTEMATICS 1995; Coates 1998). Subclass CIRRIPEDIA Burmeister, 1834 In 1990, the shallow and deep-water barnacle Superorder THORACICA Darwin, 1854 faunas of Australia were documented for the Order IBLIFORMES Buckeridge & first time, from museum holdings and liter- Newman, 2006 ature records (Jones et al. 1990). Twelve littoral, Suborder IBLOMORPHA Newman, 1987 three neustonic, 29 sublittoral (to 200 m) and Family IBLIDAE Leach, 1825 four deep-water (> 200 m) cirripede species Ibla Leach, 1825 were identified as occurring along the coast of central eastern Australia (northern NSW and Ibla cumingii Darwin, 1852 south-eastern Queensland). Ibla cumingii Darwin, 1852: 183, pl. 4 fig. 8, pl. 5 figs The present report amalgamates the results of 1–8, pl. 10 figs 4, 11. Jones et al. (1990) with records of shallow water Material Examined. AM-P19306, Wreck Pt, S barnacles collected during the 13th International Yeppoon (23º09’S, 150º46’E); AM-P19307, S end of Curtis I., Port Curtis (23º38’S, 151º10’E); AM-P19308, Marine Biological Workshop held at the Moreton Bustard Head, Port Curtis (24º01’S, 151º46’E); AM- Bay Research Station and Study Centre, North P19312, Wreck Pt, Cooee Bay, nr Yeppoon (23º09’S, Stradbroke Island, Queensland (2005), plus 150º46’E); AM-P23577, Heron I. (23º27’S, 151º55’E); more recent cirripede additions in collections of SAM-Tc11478, Moreton Bay (27°15’S, 153°15’E), from Australian museums, to produce a checklist of buoy; WAM-C19267, Cooee Bay (23°08’S, 150°45’E). the littoral and shallow water barnacle species Remarks. Nilsson-Cantell (1930: 5) recorded of the waters of south-eastern Queensland the species at the Pisang Islands, to the south- (latitudes 23ºS and above). west of New Guinea and to the north of Australia, 200 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum — Nature 2010 54(3) Barnacles of SE Queensland but Endean et al. (1956a: 106) published the first Distribution. WA (S), SA, Vic., Tas., NSW, Qld record of the occurrence of Ibla cumingi in (SE); Indo-Australasian. Australia, from material collected in tropical Habitat. MTL to LWN; often associated with Queensland (from Point Vernon northward). Galeolaria spp, mussels and barnacles. Jones et al. (1990: 7) further extended the distribu - tion of the species in northern Australian Order LEPADIFORMES Buckeridge & waters, from WA through the NT to tropical Newman, 2006 Queensland. The present contribution