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2014

Biodiversity and biogeography of the coral boring barnacles of the genus Berndtia (Cirripedia: Acrothoracica) in the West Pacific, with description of three new species

JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY
  • Benny K. K. Chan
  • ,
  • Gregory A. Kolbasov
  • ,
  • Mamiko Hirose
  • ,
  • T. Mezaki
  • ,
  • R. Suwa

Volume
48
Number
25-26
First page
1503
Last page
1541
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1080/00222933.2014.896488
Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Acrothoracican barnacles of the genus Berndtia are exclusive coral borers and the type species is Berndtia purpurea Utinomi, 1950a, reported in the corals Lepastrea purpurea and Psammocora profundacella in Wakayama, Japan. We confirmed the type is only from the coral Lepastrea purpurea and is distributed from Japan, Taiwan to Hong Kong. In contrast, B. purpurea from Psammocora belongs to a new species Berndtia haradai sp. nov., which is distributed from Japan to Okinawa. The other new species identified in the present study, Berndtia denticulata sp. nov. is common in Okinawa but also collected on the Pacific side of the Philippines. Berndtia utinomii sp. nov. is found on NE coast of Taiwan, Kochi and Wakayama in Japan and Vietnam but is absent from Okinawa. All described species are diagnostic in the coloration and morphology of the opercular bars in live specimens, morphology of posterior lobes of operculum and the number of notches in maxillules.

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https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2014.896488
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https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000337364700002&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1080/00222933.2014.896488
  • ISSN : 0022-2933
  • eISSN : 1464-5262
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000337364700002

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