Chelonibia caretta

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Coronuloidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Thecostraca Subclassis: Cirripedia Infraclassis: Thoracica Superordine: Thoracicalcarea Subordo: Balanomorpha Superfamilia: Coronuloidea

Chelonibia caretta (Spengler, 1790: 185)

Original genus: Lepas
Symbiont: Obligate commensal on marine turtles
Type locality:
Types: location unknown; not listed with Spengler's types in ZMUC
Distribution: Fossil, East Africa; living, tropical West Atlantic, Indo-west Pacific
ZooBank: B2AFF32B-C460-40C5-80CD-C5FB75304202

Hincks, W. 1840: Description of a new species of Balanus, from the cabinet of Samuel Wright, Esq., of Cork. Annals of Natural History 5(32): 333–334. BHL Reference page.
Spengler, L. 1790. Beskrivelse og Oplysning over den hindindtil lidet udarbeidede Slægt af mangeskallede Konchylier som Linnaeus har kaldet Lepas med tilfoiede nye og ubeskrevne Arter. Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet 1(1): 158–212. Full volume (PDF) Reference page. [See p. 185, as Lepas caretta]

Darwin, C. 1854. A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia with figures of all species. Vol. 2: The Balanidae, The Verrucidae. BHL London: Ray Society. Reference page. [See p. 394] (as Chelonobia caretta)
Newman, W.A. & Ross, E. 1976. Revision of the balanomorph barnacles; including a catalog of the species. Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History, (9) BHL Reference page. [See p. 43]
Spengler, L. 1790. Beskrivelse og Oplysning over den hindindtil lidet udarbeidede Slægt af mangeskallede Konchylier som Linnaeus har kaldet Lepas med tilfoiede nye og ubeskrevne Arter. Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet 1(1): 158–212. Full volume (PDF) Reference page.
Withers, T.H. 1928. The cirripede Chelonibia caretta Spengler in the Miocene of Zanzibar Protectorate. Annals and magazine of natural history, series 10 2: 390–392. DOI: 10.1080/00222932808672898 Reference page.