Taxonavigation

Familia: Chelonibiidae
Subfamilia: Chelonibiinae
Genus: Chelonibia
Species: Chelonibia caretta

Name

• Chelonibia caretta (Spengler, 1790): 185
  • Original genus: Lepas
  • Symbiont: Obligate commensal on marine turtles
  • Type locality:
  • Typus: location unknown; not listed with Spengler's types in ZMUC
  • Distribution: living, tropical West Atlantic, Indo-west Pacific
  • ZooBank: B2AFF32B-C460-40C5-80CD-C5FB75304202

References

• Spengler, L. 1790: Beskrivelse og Oplysning over den hindindtil lidet udarbeidede Sloegt 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)
• 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.  [See p. 333, as Balanus chelytrypetes, junior synonym]
• 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]
• Pilsbry, H.A. 1916: The sessile barnacles (Cirripedia) contained in the collections of the US National Museum; including a monograph of the American species. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, (93) DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.1144 Reference page.  [See p. 267, synonymy, extensive discussion]
• 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.  [African Miocene occurrence; see Chelonibia zanzibarensis]