WoRMS taxon details
basis of record
Ren, X. (1989). On a collection of Cirripedia thoracia from Madagascar and adjacent waters. <em>Bull. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat., Paris.</em> 11(2): 431-468. [details]
additional source
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Additional information C. hunteri was listed as synonym to C. virgatum by Zevina, 1982. Yet many studies after Zevina still considered these are two species (Liu and Ren; 2007). Chan and Chen (2022) used molecular approach and showed that C. hunteri and C. virgatum are separate species.
Chan BKK, Chen Y-H. Distinguishing Long-Discussed Cryptic Species of the Epibiotic Goose-Neck Barnacle of the Genus Conchoderma (Thoracicalcarea: Lepadidae) with Integrative Taxonomy. Diversity. 2022; 14(8):593. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14080593
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Distribution Distribution: Pacific and Indian Ocean <277>. [details]
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