Notochthamalus

Notochamalus scabrosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Maxillopoda
Infraclass: Cirripedia
Order: Sessilia
Suborder: Balanomorpha
Superfamily: Chthamaloidea
Family: Chthamalidae
Subfamily: Notochthamalinae
Genus: Notochthamalus
Foster & Newman, 1987[1]:326
Species: N. scabrosus
Binomial name
Notochthamalus scabrosus
(Darwin, 1854)[2]468
Synonyms

Chthamalus scabrosus Darwin, 1854

Notochthamalus scabrosus, the only species in the genus Notochthamalus,[1][3] is a species of barnacle found along the south-western and south-eastern coasts of South America, from Peru to the Falkland Islands.[4] The species is found almost exclusively higher in the intertidal zone than the mussel Perumytilus, often codistributed with the confamilial barnacle Chthamalus cirratus and Balanus flosculus.[2]:468

The barnacle on the bottom left is of the genus Jehlius; the other three barnacles are Notochthamalus scabrosus. The best character for field identification are the undulations along the tergal-scutal margins. Given the overall appearance of the operculum of Notochthamalus, it is sometimes called the "vampire barnacle".

Diagnosis and Discussion

Notochthamalus is composed of 6 compartmental plates, composed of a carina, rostrum, and paired carinolatera and rostrolatera. Sutures between plates made up of poorly developed oblique folded laminae with membraneous basis. Plates are colored dull purplish brown, weathering to gray. Free-growing shellis are conic, crowded colonies become cylindrical, with plate sutures obscured. Opercular plates are narrow and deeply interlocked.[2]:468 The interior of the tergum shows a tergal depressor muscle pit with overhang and no crests, or only relics thereof. Neither shell nor opercular plates show secondary fusion with age.[1][5]:79

Nomenclature and Synonymies

Notochthamalus

Notochthamalus scabrosus

Geographic Range and Habitat

Notochthamalus scabrosus prefers exposed upper littoral habitats, and can be found on the South American coastline from Peru through Chile, Chiloe Archipelago, and Tierra del Fuego. It co-occurs there with Chthamalus cirratus. In the Atlantic Ocean, it is very common on the Falkland Islands.[2]468[5]:79

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Brian A. Foster & William A. Newman (1987). "Chthamalid Barnacles of Easter Island. Peripheral Pacific Isolation of Notochthamalinae new-subfamily and Hembeli group of Euraphiinae (Cirripedia: Chthamaloidea).". Bulletin of Marine Science 41 (2): 322–336.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Darwin, Charles (1854). A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia with figures of all species. The Balanidae, the Verrucidae, etc. London: Ray Society. pp. 1–684.
  3. ↑ William A. Newman & Brian A. Foster (1987). "Southern Hemisphere endemism among the barnacles: explained in part by extinction of northern members of amphitropical taxa?". Bulletin of Marine Science 41 (2): 361–377.
  4. ↑ Jessica Curelovich, Gustavo A. Lovrich & Javier A. Calcagno (2009). "Nueva localidad para Notochthamalus scabrosus (Crustacea, Cirripedia): Bahía Lapataia, Canal Beagle, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina" [New locality for Notochthamalus scabrosus (Crustacea , Cirripedia): Bahía Lapataia, Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina] (PDF). Anales Instituto Patagonia (Chile) (in Spanish) 37 (2): 47–50. doi:10.4067/s0718-686x2009000200005.
  5. 1 2 3 Poltarukha, O. P. (2006). Identification Atlas of Superfamily Chthamaloidea (Cirripedia Thoracica) barnacles in World Ocean. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press, Ltd. pp. 1-198 [In Russian]. ISBN 5-87317-278-1.
  6. ↑ Newman, W. A.; A. Ross (1976). "Revision of the Balanomorph Barnacles including a catalog of the species". Memoirs of San Diego Society of Natural History 9: 1–108.
  7. ↑ Poltarukha, O. P. (1996). "Composition, phylogeny and position in system of subfamily Notochthamalinae (Crustacea, Chthamalidae)". Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 75 (7): 985–994. ISSN 0044-5134.
  8. ↑ Pilsbry, H. A. (1916). "The sessile Barnacles (Cirripedia) contained in the collections of the US National Museum; including a monograph of the American species". Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 93: 1–366. doi:10.5479/si.03629236.93.1.

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