New Records of the Tetraclitid Barnacle Tesseropora alba (Cirripedia: Thoracica: Tetraclitoidea) in the Pacific Waters of Taiwan and Okinawa

Abstract

The four-plated barnacle Tesseropora alba Ren and Liu, 1979 is recorded for the first time away from its type locality in the Xisha Islands, South China Sea. The new localities are northwestern Taiwan and Okinawa. The species is redescribed in detail, with a discussion of its likely geographical range in the Pacific.