Species Regional Summary
Amphibalanus amphitrite
None ( SP-XXI )

Invasion History Vectors Impacts References

Invasion

Invasion Description

1st record: Honolulu (Oahu)/HI/Honolulu Harbor (1902, Henry and McLaughlin 1975; USNM 32517, U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2002; Carlton and Eldredge 2009)

Geographic Extent

Honolulu (Oahu)/HI/Honolulu Harbor (USNM 32517, Henry and McLaughlin 1975, U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2002); Oahu/HI/Pearl Harbor (USNM 155402-3, 155405-155407, U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2002); Oahu/HI/Kaneohe Bay; Throughout the main Hawaiian islands; Nauwilwili, Kauai/HI/Nauwilwili Harbor (Coles et al. 2004; 21 57 26.1N; 159 21 39.7W); Maui/HI/Kahulului Harbor (2003, Coles et al. 2004, 20 45 05; 156 26 9.6); Oahu/HI/Kaneohe Bay (now mostly replaced by A. reticulatus and Chthamalus proteus, but common in low salinity settings, Zabin 2009)

Vectors

Level Vector
Alternate Ballast Water
Alternate Hull Fouling

Regional Impacts

References

Carlton, James T.; Eldredge, Lucius (2009) Marine bioinvasions of Hawaii: The introduced and cryptogenic marine and estuarine animals and plants of the Hawaiian archipelago., Bishop Museum Bulletin in Cultural and Environmental Studies 4: 1-202

Coles, S. L.; Reath, P. R.; Longenecker, K.; Bolick, Holly; Eldredge, L. G. (2004) <missing title>, Hawai‘i Community Foundation and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Honolulu. Pp. 1-187

Demopoulos, Amanda W. J.; Smith, Craig R. (2010) Invasive mangroves alter macrofaunal community structure and facilitate opportunistic exotics, Marine Ecology Progress Series 404: 51-67

Henry, Dora P.; McLaughlin, Patsy A. (1975) The barnacles of the Balanus amphitrite complex (Cirripedia, Thoracica)., Zoologische Verhandelingen 141: 1-203

Zabin, Chela J. (2009) Battle of the barnacle newcomers: niche compression in invading species in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, Marine Ecology Progress Series 381: 175-182


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