Invasion
Invasion Description
1st records: (established) Aquatic Park, San Francisco/CA/San Francisco Bay (1939, Rogers 1949, as B. a. herzi, cited by Carlton 1979); (1939, Rogers 1949, as B. a. franciscanus, cited by Carlton 1979) 1st record: US Submarine Narwhal, fouling, Mare Island Shipyard/CA/San Francisco Bay, 1929 (Carlton 1979)
Geographic Extent
Aquatic Park, San Francisco/CA/San Francisco Bay (1939, Rogers 1949, as B. a. herzi, cited by Carlton 1979); Bayview Park (1939, Rogers 1949, as B. a. franciscanus, cited by Carlton 1979)Oakland/CA/Lake Merritt (1941, 1952, Carlton 1979); Berkeley Aquatic Park/CA/San Francisco Bay (1952, Henry and McLaughlin 1975; Carlton 1979); Alviso/CA/pond near Alviso Slough (22⁰C, 52 ppt, Cohen 2005); Coyote Point/CA/San Francisco Bay (Cohen 2005); Fruitvale Bridge, Alameda/CA/Oakland Estuary (2004, Cohen et al. 2005); San Francisco Marina/CA/San Francisco Bay (2010, Marrafini et al. 2017); CA/San Francisco Bay (2014, 2015, Ruiz and Geller 2021)
Vectors
| Level | Vector |
|---|---|
| Alternate | Hull Fouling |
| Alternate | Ballast Water |
Regional Impacts
References
Cohen, Andrew N.; Carlton, James T. (1995) Nonindigenous aquatic species in a United States estuary: a case study of the biological invasions of the San Francisco Bay and Delta, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Sea Grant College Program (Connecticut Sea Grant), Washington DC, Silver Spring MD.. Pp. <missing location>Green, Stephanie J. and 7 authors (2021) Broad-scale acoustic telemetry reveals long-distance movements and large home ranges for invasive lionfish on Atlantic coral reefs, Marine Ecology Progress Series 673: 117-134
Henry, Dora P.; McLaughlin, Patsy A. (1975) The barnacles of the Balanus amphitrite complex (Cirripedia, Thoracica)., Zoologische Verhandelingen 141: 1-203
Rogers, Frank Lee (1949) Three new subspecies of Balanus amphitrite from California, Journal of Entomology and Zoology 41(2): 23-32
Ruiz, Gregory; Geller, Jonathan (2021) Spatial and temporal analysis of marine invasions: supplemental studies to evaluate detection through quantitative and molecular methodologies, Marine Invasive Species Program, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Sacramento CA. Pp. 153 ppl.