Balanus trigonus Darwin 1854
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Balanus trigonus Darwin, 1854
(Figs 10 a–g)
Material examined. ZUTC-cirri 1167, 1168, 1169, 1170, 1171, 1172, 1173.
Persian Gulf. Nilsson-Cantell (1938) from an unknown locality; Utinomi (1969) from Larak Island in Iran (Fig. 1); present study.
Gulf of Oman. Nilsson-Cantell (1938) from an unknown locality; present study.
General distribution and habitat. Cosmopolitan, ranging from tropical to temperate seas; fouling species on various substrata, littoral to sublittoral (Jones et al. 2000; present study).
Descriptive features and remarks. Shell conic, with small triangle orifice. External surface of parietes ribbed, ribs white on red or pink field (Figs 10 e-g). Scutum externally with longitudinal rows of holes (Figs 10 b); tergum with spur wide (Figs 10 c, d). Largest specimen (ZUTC-cirri 1171) with basal diameter 17.56 mm, height 9.0 mm.
The specimens were collected from various substrata such as littoral rocks, mollusc shells and floating objects at Nayband (27° 23'N, 52° 39'E), Parsian (27° 02'N, 53° 16'E), Jask (25° 41'N, 57° 53' E), Chabahar (25° 19'N, 60° 37'E) and Gwatr (25° 08'N, 61° 27'E) (Fig. 1).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Darwin
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Sessilia
- Family
- Balanidae
- Genus
- Balanus
- Species
- trigonus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Balanus trigonus Darwin, 1854 sec. Shahdadi, Sari & Naderloo, 2014
References
- Darwin, C. (1854) A monograph on the Subclass Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. The Balanidae, the Verrucidae, etc. Ray Society, London, 684 pp.
- Nilsson-Cantell, C. A. (1938) Cirripedes from the Indian Ocean in the collections of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Memoirs of the Indian Museum, 13, 1 - 81.
- Utinomi, H. (1969) Cirripedia of the Iranian Gulf. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, 132, 79 - 94.
- Jones, D. S., Hewitt, M. A. & Sampey, A. (2000) A checklist of the Cirripedia of the South China Sea. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 8, 233 - 307.