Species Regional Summary
Amphibalanus amphitrite
None ( MED-VII )

Invasion History Vectors Impacts References

Invasion

Invasion Description

1st record? Venice/Italy/Lagoon of Venice (1872, Innocenti 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

Venice/Italy/Lagoon of Venice (Rigo 1942, cited by Koukouras and Matsa 1998); Dalmatia/Croatia-Bosnia-Hersegovina-Yugoslavia/Adriatic Sea (Koukouras and Matsa 1998); Dalmatia/Croatia (Yugoslavia)/Adriatic Sea (1940, USNM 89311, US National Museum of Natural History 2010)

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

2002-2021 Invertebrate Zoology Collections Database. <missing description>




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