Abstract
An examination of the deep-sea barnacles (Cirripedia, Thoracica) collected by theKarubarexpedition to Indonesia (1991) and deposited in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, identified 40 species contained in three families of stalked and five families of acorn barnacles. Information on these species is presented, including descriptions, updated distributions and images to aid species identification. Thirty of the species, treated herein, are new records for the Indonesian Kei Islands and Tanimbar Island, which increases the total number of species recorded from Kei Islands, Aru Island and Tanimbar Island to 40. This study demonstrates the value of museum collections as a resource in biodiversity science.
Highlights
In 1991, scientists from France and Indonesia conducted collaborative research through the Karubar expedition in Indonesia
459 specimens were studied at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), of which 89 specimens were studied in detail at the Museum für Naturkunde (MfN), Berlin, Germany
Prior to the Karubar expedition, 24 species of barnacles had been collected from the Kei Islands and Aru Island by the Siboga expedition (Hoek 1913)
Summary
In 1991, scientists from France and Indonesia conducted collaborative research through the Karubar expedition in Indonesia. The acronym for this expedition, which collected the material reported on is a contraction of the names of the Kei, Aru and Tanimbar Islands. These Islands attracted attention after Professor Th. Mortensen’s Danish expedition to the Kei Islands (1914–16). Mortensen suggested that the Islands were an ideal place for a marine laboratory to study deep-sea fauna, as he had found stalked crinoids, elasipods and other abyssal creatures at depths of 200–400 m around the Kei Islands (Crosnier et al 1997). The Karubar expedition was part of the MUSORSTOM-Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos programme
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