Chthamalus malayensis

Familia: Chthamalidae
Subfamilia: Chthamalinae
Genus: Chthamalus
Species:

• Chthamalus malayensis Pilsbry, 1916: 310
  • Stratigraphic and geographic range: Lower Miocene, Japan; Recent, Littoral, Australia; Taiwan through Indo-China, Malaysia; India; Madagascar; East Coast of Africa, Somalia, Tanzania, Kenya
  • Type locality: Malay Peninsula
  • Typus: USNM 48084
  • ZooBank: CFFDB215-E106-4746-8B11-7D5C5E6458EA

• Chthamalus challengeri krakatauensis Broch, 1931: 53
  • Synonymized by Southward & Newman, 2003, as identical to type C. malayensis
  • Typus: Lectotype ZMC 6008
  • ZooBank: CD45F81B-450F-48E6-B3B0-CB83F36059F3

• Pilsbry, H.A. 1916. The sessile barnacles (Cirripedia) contained in the collections of the US National Museum; including a monograph of the American species. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (93) DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.1144 Reference page.  [See p. 310, original description]

• Broch, H. 1931: Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-1916. LVI. Indomalayan Cirripedia. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn, 91: 1–146. Reference page. 
• Jones, D.S., Hewitt, M.A. & Sampey, A. 2000. A checklist of the Cirripedia of the South China Sea. In The Biodiversity of South China Sea. Raffles bulletin of zoology, supplement (8): 233–307. Full article (PDF) Reference page.  [See p. 259, distribution]
• Jones, D.S. & Hosie, A.M. 2016. A checklist of the barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) of Singapore and neighbouring waters. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 34 (Part I): 241–311. Full article (PDF) Reference page.  [See p. 265, synonymy, distribution]
• Karasawa, H. & Kobayashi, N. 2025. Cirripedes from the Miocene Mizunami Group, central Japan, with the description of a new species of Amphibalanus Pitombo from the Iwamura Group, central Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 52(1): 55––99. DOI: 10.50897/bmfm.52.1_55. Reference page.  [See p. 60, fossil occurrence]
• 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. 42]
• Pochai, A., Kingtong, S., Sukparangsi, W. & Khachonpisitsak, S. 2017. The diversity of acorn barnacles (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha) across Thailand’s coasts: The Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand. Zoosystematics and Evolution 93(1): 13–34. DOI: 10.3897/zse.93.10769. Reference page. 
• Poltarukha, O.P. 2006: Identification Atlas of the Superfamily Chthamaloidea Barnacles (Cirripedia Thoracica) in the World Ocean. KMK Scientific Press, Ltd., Moscow. ISBN 5-87317-278-1. [In Russian] Reference page.  [See p. 150] [locality data, re-description]
• Southward, A.J.; Newman, W.A. 2003: A review of some common Indo-Malayan and Western Pacific species of Chthamalus barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 83:797-812. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315403007835hReference page.  [See p. 799]

• BHL bibliography
• Chthamalus malayensis – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Chthamalus malayensis.
• ION
• Chthamalus malayensis in the World Register of Marine Species

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