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: 1-11Koukouras, 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>