Taxonavigation

Familia: Chelonibiidae
Subfamilia: Chelonibiinae
Genus: Chelonibia
Species: Chelonibia caretta

Name

Chelonibia caretta (Spengler, 1790: 185)

• Original genus: Lepas
• Symbiont: Obligate commensal on marine turtles
• Type locality:
• Types: location unknown; not listed with Spengler's types in ZMUC
• Distribution: Fossil, East Africa; living, tropical West Atlantic, Indo-west Pacific
• ZooBank: B2AFF32B-C460-40C5-80CD-C5FB75304202

References

• Hincks, W. 1840: Description of a new species of Balanus, from the cabinet of Samuel Wright, Esq., of Cork. Annals of Natural History 5(32): 333–334. BHL Reference page. 
• Spengler, L. 1790: Beskrivelse og Oplysning over den hindindtil lidet udarbeidede Sloegt af mangeskallede Konchylier som Linnaeus har kaldet Lepas med tilfoiede nye og ubeskrevne Arter. Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet 1(1): 158-212. Full volume (PDF) Reference page.  [See p. 185, as Lepas caretta]

• Darwin, C. 1854. A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia with figures of all species. Vol. 2: The Balanidae, The Verrucidae. BHL London: Ray Society. Reference page.  [See p. 394] (as Chelonobia caretta)
• Newman, W.A.; Ross, E. 1976: Revision of the balanomorph barnacles; including a catalog of the species. Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History, (9) BHL Reference page.  [See p. 43]
• Spengler, L. 1790: Beskrivelse og Oplysning over den hindindtil lidet udarbeidede Sloegt af mangeskallede Konchylier som Linnaeus har kaldet Lepas med tilfoiede nye og ubeskrevne Arter. Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet 1(1): 158-212. Full volume (PDF) Reference page. 
• Withers, T.H. 1928. The cirripede Chelonibia caretta Spengler in the Miocene of Zanzibar Protectorate. Annals and magazine of natural history, series 10 2: 390–392. DOI: 10.1080/00222932808672898 Reference page. 

External links

• BHL bibliography
• Hassler, M. {{{1}}}. Chelonibia caretta. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. {{{1}}}. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: {{{1}}} {{{2}}} {{{3}}}. Reference page. 
• Chelonibia caretta – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Chelonibia caretta.
• ION
• Chelonibia caretta in the World Register of Marine Species
• Chelonibia caretta – Taxon details on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).