A checklist of the barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Thoracica) of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman with nine new records
Author
Shahdadi, Adnan
Author
Sari, Alireza
Author
Naderloo, Reza
text
Zootaxa
2014
3784
3
201
223
journal article
46112
10.11646/zootaxa.3784.3.1
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1175-5326
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Megabalanus tintinnabulum
(
Linnaeus, 1758
)
Persian Gulf.
Jones (1986)
from
Kuwait
;
Basson
et al.
(1977)
as
Megabalanus tintinnabulum tintinnabulum
(
Linnaeus, 1758
)
from
Saudi Arabia
(
Fig. 1
).
Gulf of
Oman
.
No record.
General distribution and habitat.
Cosmopolitan; on various substrata, known as a fouling species (
Jones
et al
. 2000
).