Species Regional Summary
Amphibalanus amphitrite
None ( MED-III )

Invasion History Vectors Impacts References

Invasion

Invasion Description

Naples/Italy/Bay of Naples (1871, Innocenti et al. 2006)

[Note- Southward (1998) disputes the introduced status of A. amphitrite in the Mediterranean, citing his identification of this barnacle in an excavation of a 2000 year-old Carthaginian naval base in Tunis.]

Geographic Extent

Naples/Italy/Bay of Naples (1871, Innocenti et al. 2006); Palermo, Sicily/Italy/Tyrhennian Sea (Koukouras and Matsa 1998); Meloria/Italy/Tyrhennian Sea (1969, Innocenti et al. 2006); Elba Island/Italy/Tyrhennian Sea (date unknown, Innocenti et al. 2006); Porto Santo Stefano/Italy/Tyrhennian Sea (1991, Innocenti et al. 2006); Isola Maddalena/Italy/Tyrhennian Sea (1872, Innocenti et al. 2006); Stromboli/Italy/Tyrhennian Sea (1872, Innocenti et al. 2006)

Vectors

Level Vector
Alternate Ballast Water
Alternate Hull Fouling

Regional Impacts

References

Innocenti, G. (2006) Collections of the Natural History Museum, Zoological Section «la Specola» of the University of Florence. XXIII. Crustacea, class Maxillopoda, subclass Thecostraca, infraclass Cirripedia, Atti della Societa Toscana di Scienze Naturali Memorie, series B. 113: 1-11

Koukouras, Anathasios; Matsa, Athanasia (1998) The thoracican cirriped fauna of the Aegean Sea: New information, checklist of the Mediterranean species, faunal comparisons., Senckenbergiana Maritima 28(4/6): 133-142

Southward, A. J. (1998) New observations on barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia) of the Azores regions., Arquipelago. Life and Marine Sciences 16A: 11-27


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