Chelonibia testudinaria

Chelonibia testudinaria on Caretta caretta, Mediterranean Sea

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 Superordo: Thoracica Ordo: Sessilia Subordo: Balanomorpha Infraordo: Neobalanoformes 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]

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• 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]