Chelonibia testudinaria

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

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

Name

Chelonibia testudinaria (Linnaeus, 1758): 668
- Geological age: Pliocene to Recent
- Original genus: Lepas
- Symbiont: Epibiont commensal on carapace of marine turtles
- Type locality:
- Types: UUZM 380a-b
- Distribution: Cosmopolitan on marine turtles; Pliocene of Italy, associated with whales
- ZooBank: 4CD14BE4-56E6-44FB-BD44-F5E8382E9849

Synonyms

Astrolepas rotundarius Gray, 1825: 105
- Synonymized in Darwin, 1854: 392
- ZooBank: 658A32AC-9D3D-405F-A267-10FA2E46ED20

Ecomorphs

These taxa are genetically identical to Chelonibia testudinaria, but are morphologically separated by their substrate; click link for full details
Chelonibia manati Gruvel, 1903ː 116
- Epibiont of manatees
Chelonibia patula (Ranzani, 1818)ː 86
- Found on crabs, gastropods, plastics, bones

References

Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page. [See p. 668, as Lepas testudinaria]

Collareta, A., Bosselaers, M. & Bianucci, G. 2016. Jumping from turtles to whales: a Pliocene fossil record depicts an ancient dispersal of Chelonibia on mysticetes. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 122(2): 35–44. Full article (PDF) DOI: 10.13130/2039-4942/7229 Reference page.
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. 392, as Chelonobia testudinaria; see for junior synonyms]
Gray, J.E. 1825. A synopsis of the genera of Cirripedes arranged in natural families, with a description of some new species. Annals of Philosophy new series 10: 97–107. BHL Reference page. [See p. 105, as Astrolepas rotundarius]
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. 44]
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. 264, extensive description, discussion]
Trivedi, J.N., Doshi, M., Patel, K.J. & Chan, B. K-K. 2021. Diversity of intertidal, epibiotic, and fouling barnacles (Cirripedia, Thoracica) from Gujarat, northwest India. ZooKeys 1026: 143–178. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1026.60733 Reference page. [as Chelonibia testudinaria p. 151–152]
Zardus, J.D., Lake, D.T., Frick, M.G. & Rawson, P.D. 2014. Deconstructing an assemblage of “turtle” barnacles: species assignments and fickle fidelity in Chelonibia. Marine Biology 161(1): 45–59. DOI: 10.1007/s00227-013-2312-7 Springer. Reference page. [Genetic data of Chelonibia morphospecies]