Zootaxa 3784 (3): 201–223 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Article ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2014 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3784.3.1 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0264007A-B68D-49BB-A5EC-41373FF62ED3 A checklist of the barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Thoracica) of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman with nine new records ADNAN SHAHDADI13, ALIREZA SARI2 & REZA NADERLOO2 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Hormozgan, Bandarabbas, Iran, Email:
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[email protected] regensburg.de Abstract The present annotated checklist contains 43 species of thoracican barnacles known to date from the area, 33 and 26 from the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, respectively. Nine species are new records for the area including Amphibalunus subalbidus (Henry, 1973), Armatobalanus allium (Darwin, 1854), Chelonibia patula (Ranzani, 1818), Conchoderma hunteri (Owen, 1830), Lepas anserifera Linnaeus, 1767, Lithotrya valentiana Reinhardt, 1850, Megabalanus coccopoma (Darwin, 1854), Megabalanus occator (Darwin, 1854) and Platylepas hexastylos (Fabricius, 1798), of which A. subalbi- dus and M. coccopoma are reported as alien species from the region. Key words: Barnacle, Cirripedia, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Checklist, New records Introduction The classification of the subphylum Crustacea has recently been revised by Ahyong et al. (2011). They included three superorders for the infraclass Cirripedia Burmeister, 1834, namely Acrothoracica Gruvel, 1905 (burrowing barnacles), Rhizocephala Müller, 1862 (parasitic barnacles) and Thoracica Darwin, 1854 (true barnacles).