Invasion

Invasion Description

[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

Central Mediterranean Sea (Medifauna Database, http://nephi.unice.fr/Medifaune/HTM/art/ESP/F/f5095.htm); Syrte/Tunisia ; Malta/Mediterranean Sea (Koukouras and Matsa 1998); Italy; Gulf of Taranto (2013-2015, Lezzi et al. 2017)