Verum brachiumcancri (Weltner, 1922)

Buhl-Mortensen, Lene & Høeg, Jens T., 2013, Reproductive strategy of two deep-sea scalpellid barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Thoracica) associated with decapods and pycnogonids and the first description of a penis in scalpellid dwarf males, Organisms Diversity & Evolution (New York, N. Y.) 13 (4), pp. 545-557 : 546

Verum brachiumcancri

We examined 51 specimens V. brachiumcancri obtained from the Cirripedia collection in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (nos. 22257, 22258, and 22261). Of these, 46 specimens were attached to 13 individuals of the majid crab Rochinia hertwigi (crabs labelled as Scyramathia hertwigi Doflein , the original generic combination). Another five specimens of V. brachiumcancri were already detached from their host(s); one additional R. hertwigi crab hosted no scalpellids at all, and it may have been the source of these loose specimens. The crabs examined were sampled by the “Deutsche Tiefsee-Expedition” from stn. 103 in the South Atlantic (35°10.5′S and 23°2′E) at 500 m depth and a bottom temperature of 7.8 ° C ( Weltner 1922). The same museum also houses an additional five specimens of Scyramathia hertwigi (so-labelled) carrying a total of 24 V. brachiumcancri . These specimens, left intact on their crabs, do not form part of our tabulated material, but some information on males was gleaned from one of the loose specimens.