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Type: Article
Published: 2014-03-28
Page range: 201–223
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A checklist of the barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Thoracica) of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman with nine new records

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Hormozgan, Bandarabbas, Iran Biologie I, Institut für Zoologie, Universität Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
School of Biology and Center of Excellence in Phylogeny of Living Organisms, College of Science, University of Tehran, Iran
School of Biology and Center of Excellence in Phylogeny of Living Organisms, College of Science, University of Tehran, Iran
Barnacle Cirripedia Persian Gulf Gulf of Oman Checklist New records

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. subalbidus and M. coccopoma are reported as alien species from the region.