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Two New Deep-Sea Cirripedia (Ascothoracica and Acrothoracica) From the Atlantic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

William A. Newman
William A. Newman
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The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PLi 2PB
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Two new deep-sea barnacles (Cirripedia) are described. The first, from approximately 5200 m in the Southwest Atlantic, belongs to the most generalized genus of the order Ascothoracica, Synagoga. The two previously known species, S. mira from the Mediterranean and S. metacrinicola from Japan, are from relatively shallow water. The new species is not only more generalized than either of these, but it exceeds previous depth records for any ascothoracican by more than 1000 m. It is apparently a sequentially protandric hermaphroditic ectoparasite, knowledge of which helps clarify difficulties in interpreting the life histories of certain more highly evolved endoparasitic forms. On the other hand, its markedly generalized features bear heavily on considerations of the origin of the Maxillopoda.

The second new species, from approximately 1500 m in the Bay of Biscay, belongs to the most generalized genus of the order Acrothoracica, Weltneria. It is closely related to W. hessleri known from 1000 m off Bermuda and the two are unique in being the only true deep water members of the order. The new species is remarkable in inhabiting a friable, clayey substrate - all other acrothoracicins are known to burrow only in relatively solid forms of calcium carbonate. However, both have a calcified rostral plate, and this indicates that the Acrothoracica stem from scalpellid rather than cyprilepadid or iblid Lepadomorpha.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , May 1974 , pp. 437 - 456
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1974

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