Key Identification Features
- Elminius, another barnacle genus that can occur alongside both Chamaesipho species, also has four shell wall plates, but its plates remain distinct through all life stages.
- It has a distinct, low rounded scutal adductor ridge, which contrasts with C.
- Its native distribution ranges from northwestern Africa all the way around to Madagascar, and across this entire range, there are thought to be at least three genomically distinct species.
- stellatus were larger than those observed between other distinct Chthamalus species.
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