Tetraclita ehsani sp. n. (Cirripedia, Tetraclitidae), a common intertidal barnacle from the Gulf of Oman, Iran

By

Shahdadi, Adnan
Chan, Benny K.K.
Sari, Alireza

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2011

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

136

Pages

1-12

Subjects

Barnacles , Cirripedia , Crustacea , Gulf of Oman , Indian Ocean , Iran , Tetraclitidae

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.136.1772

 

Abstract

A new species of intertidal acorn barnacle Tetraclita ehsani sp. n. was identified from the Iranian coast in the Gulf of Oman. T. ehsani sp. n. inhabits low exposed rocky shores and also attaches to shells of molluscs and the barnacle Megabalanus species. Parietes of T. ehsani ranged from white to pink which is different from T. serrata (in South African waters), which has green parietes. Morphology of the tergum and cirrus III of T. ehsani sp. n. is distinctive from other described West Indian Ocean species which have pink or white parietes (T. rufotincta, T. achituvi and T. reni). The tergum of T. ehsani is very narrow and the basal margin is slightly concave or straight, in contrast to T. rufotincta and T. reni, in which the tergum are board and with a very concave basal margin. Cirrus I anterior ramus of both T. ehsani and T. reni is antenniform and thus differing from the cirrus I of T. rufotincta (see Chan et al. 2009). Cirrus III of T. ehsani sp. n. is non-antenniform and lacks multicuspidate type setae, which is different from T. reni byan antenniform cirrus III and with multicuspidate setae.