Species Regional Summary
Amphibalanus amphitrite
None ( NEA-II )

Invasion History Vectors Impacts References

Invasion

Invasion Description

1st record: Le Havre/France/English Channel (1928, Bishop et al. 1957). In northern European waters, Balanus amphitrite is mostly confined to warm shallow waters near effluents.

Geographic Extent

Le Havre/France/English Channel (1928, Bishop et al. 1957); Sussex/England/Shoreham Harbor (English Channel) (Bishop 1950; Eno 1996); Scheveningen/Netherlands/North Sea (Wolf 1999);Oostende/ Belgium/North Sea (1952, Kerckhof and Cattrijsse 2003; Kerckhof et al. 2007); Ireland/Irish Sea (1966, not established, Minchin 2007); Norderney/Germany/North Sea (2002, Wiegemann 2008, 53°42.155'N, 7°09.781'E, 2 cyprids metamorphosing in flowing seawater system); on hulls of ships in drydocks/Scotland/North sea-Irish Sea (2009-2012, McCollin and Brown 2014)

Vectors

Level Vector
Alternate Hull Fouling
Alternate Ballast Water

Regional Impacts

References

Bamber, R. N. (1990) Power station thermal effluents and marine crustaceans, Journal of Thermal Biology 15(1): 91-96

Bishop, M. W.; Crisp, D. J.; Fischer-Piette, E.; Prenant, M. (1957) Sur l’écologie des Cirripèdes de la côte atlantique française., Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique, Monaco 1099: 1-12

Eno, N. Clare (1996) Non-native marine species in British waters: effects and controls, Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 6: 215-228

Grizel, H; Héral, M (1991) Introduction into France of the Japanese oyster Crassostrea gigas)., Journal Conseil Internationale d' Exploration de la Mer 47(3): 399-403

Kerckhof, Francis; Cattrijsse, Andre (2001) Exotic Cirripedia (Balanomorpha) from buoys off the Belgian Coast., Senckenbergiana Maritima 31(2): 245-254

McCollin, Tracy; Brown, Lyndsay (2014) Native and non-native marine biofouling species present on commercial vessels using Scottish dry docks and harbours, Management of Biological Invasions 5(2): 85-96

Patel, Bhupendra; Crisp, D. J. (1960) The influence of temperature on the breeding and the moulting activities of some warm-water species of operculate barnacles, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 39: 667-680

Raymont, J. E. G. (1976) Harvesting Polluted Waters, Plenum, New York. Pp. 185-199

Wiegemann, Maja (2008) Wild cyprids metamorphosing in vitro reveal the presence ofBalanus amphitrite Darwin, 1854 in the German Bight basin., Aquatic Invasions 3: 228-231

Wolff, Wim (1999) Exotic invaders of the mes-oligohaline zone of estuaries in the Netherlands: why are there so many?, Helgoländer Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen 52: 393-400


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