Coral-inhabiting barnacles (Cirripedia; Thoracica; Balanomorpha; Pyrgomatinae) from east of 150°W

Yair Achituv, Yaacov Langsam

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Abstract

The absence of coral-inhabiting barnacles in the eastern Pacific has been generally accepted. Examination of corals collected on seven islands of French Polynesia, presently found in the collection of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, revealed the presence of four known species of coral-inhabiting barnacles, Cantellius tredecimus, Trevathana dentata, T. paulayi, and Neotrevathana elongata, and two new species, Trevathana tureiae and Savignium tuamotum. The present report extends the distribution of the pyrgomatines further east and south of their previously documented distribution.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1705-1717
Number of pages13
JournalJournal of Natural History
Volume39
Issue number20
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005

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The subfamily Pyrgomatinae accommodates the Indo-Pacific coral-inhabiting barnacles. Gruvel (1912, p 350) reported Trevathana (Pyrgoma) dentata from Gambier, French Polynesia, in the collection of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN). For nearly a century this was the only report of coral-inhabiting barnacles east of the Line Islands (Ross and Newman 2002). A comprehensive geographic distribution of the coral-inhabiting barnacles was first compiled by Ross and Newman (1973), who presented distribution maps and noted that in the Pacific, pyrgomatines are absent east of 160uW longitude, with the exception of the single record of Pyrgoma east of 150uW (Gruvel 1912). Since this publication, more papers compiling data on the distribution of coral barnacles, based on literature records and various collections, have been published but with no mention of these barnacles east of 160uW (Ogawa and Matsuzuki 1992). In their analysis of coral barnacles, Ross and Newman (2002), referred only to the single case mentioned by Gruvel (1912). The absence of coral-inhabiting barnacles in the eastern Pacific has been generally accepted, and supported by the absence of barnacles from the well-studied Hawaiian corals. Recent examination of corals in the MNHN revealed that the apparent absence of these barnacles from east of 160uW is due to the lack of examination of material from this region. In the present paper, we report the occurrence of four known species of

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The subfamily Pyrgomatinae accommodates the Indo-Pacific coral-inhabiting barnacles. Gruvel (1912, p 350) reported Trevathana (Pyrgoma) dentata from Gambier, French Polynesia, in the collection of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN). For nearly a century this was the only report of coral-inhabiting barnacles east of the Line Islands (Ross and Newman 2002). A comprehensive geographic distribution of the coral-inhabiting barnacles was first compiled by Ross and Newman (1973), who presented distribution maps and noted that in the Pacific, pyrgomatines are absent east of 160uW longitude, with the exception of the single record of Pyrgoma east of 150uW (Gruvel 1912). Since this publication, more papers compiling data on the distribution of coral barnacles, based on literature records and various collections, have been published but with no mention of these barnacles east of 160uW (Ogawa and Matsuzuki 1992). In their analysis of coral barnacles, Ross and Newman (2002), referred only to the single case mentioned by Gruvel (1912). The absence of coral-inhabiting barnacles in the eastern Pacific has been generally accepted, and supported by the absence of barnacles from the well-studied Hawaiian corals. Recent examination of corals in the MNHN revealed that the apparent absence of these barnacles from east of 160uW is due to the lack of examination of material from this region. In the present paper, we report the occurrence of four known species of

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Israel Science Foundation410/03

    Keywords

    • Coral barnacles
    • French Polynesia
    • Pyrgomatinae

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