Species Regional Summary
Amphibalanus amphitrite
None ( MED-IX )

Invasion History Vectors Impacts References

Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record? Black Sea (Caspers 1951, cited by Koukouras and Matsa 1998)

Geographic Extent

Black Sea (introduced in recent years, not established?, unlikely to survive the winter, Zevina and Polmarukha 1999); Constanta/Romania/Black Sea (2009, Preda et al. 2012, only at one site)l  Romania/Black Sea 'casual' *Bancila et al. 2022)

Vectors

Level Vector
Alternate Hull Fouling
Alternate Ballast Water

Regional Impacts

References

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

Preda, Cristina; Memedemin, Daniyar; Skolka, Marius; lniceanu, Dan Coga (2012) Early detection of potentially invasive invertebrate species in Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819 dominated communities in harbours, Helgoland Marine Research 66: 545-556

Zevina, G. B.; Poltarukha, O. P. (1999) [Barnacles of the Black Sea), Bulletin of the Moscow Society of Naturalists 104(1): 30-39.


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