Species Regional Summary
Amphibalanus improvisus
Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras ( NA-ET3 )

Invasion History Vectors Impacts References

Invasion

Invasion Description

None

Geographic Extent

Cotuit/MA/Nantucket Sound (Henry and McLaughlin 1975, collected 1964); RI/Pettaquamscutt River (Lang and Marcy 1982); Norwich/CT/Thames River (USNM 155426, U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2002, collected 1936); RI/Pettaquamscutt River (Lang and Marcy 1982); CT/Quinnipiac River (Pilsbry 1916); NY/Long Island Sound (collected 1874, USNM 51875), U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2002); NY/Croton Bay, Hudson River (Crandall 1977); NY/Haverstraw Bay, Hudson River (1936, USNM 78674, U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2002); NJ/Raritan Bay (Pearce 1974); Salem County/NJ/Alloway Creek (9 miles upstream from Delaware River, USNM 150123, U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2002, collected 1973); DE/Delaware Bay (Henry and McLaughlin 1975); Kent County/MD/off Still Pond, Chesapeake Bay (1978, Henry and McLaughlin 1975); Wan Point Bar, Kent County/MD/Chesapeake Bay (Henry and McLaughlin 1975); Annapolis, Sandy Point/MD/Chesapeake Bay (Henry and McLaughlin 1975); Anne Arundel County/MD/South River (Henry and McLaughlin 1975); Cabin Creek Oyster Bar/MD/Choptank River, Chesapeake Bay (collected 1980, USNM 181525, U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2002); Chesapeake Beach/MD/Chesapeake Bay (USNM 51788, U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2002); Fairhaven/MD/Herring Bay (USNM 79225); Camp Roosevelt/MD/Chesapeake Bay (USNM 79213); Solomons Island/MD/Chesapeake Bay (1944, Henry and McLaughlin 1975); MD/Potomac River, Cornfield Harbor (USNM 85059); Riverside, Charles Co./MD/Potomac River (USNM 85058); Lower Cedar Point Bar/MD/Potomac River (USNM 85060); Poseys Bluff Bar/MD/Potomac River (1942, Henry and McLaughlin 1975); Liverpool Beach, Charles County/MD/Potomac River (1935, USNM 85068, U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2002); Heron Island Bar/MD/Potomac River (USNM 97560, Henry and McLaughlin 1975); Blake Creek Bar/MD/Potomac River (USNM 97562, Henry and McLaughlin 1975); Swan Point Bar, Charles County/MD/Potomac River (USNM 97571); Marumsco Bar/MD/Pocomoke Sound (Kennedy and DiCosimo 1983); Brown Shoal, Newport News/VA/James River (1972, Larson 1985); Hog Island/VA/James River (Thompson 1993); Off Cape Henry Light/VA/Chesapeake Bay-Atlantic Ocean (USNM 58191, U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2002)

Vectors

Level Vector

Regional Impacts

References

Crandall, Marc. E. (1977) Epibenthic Invertebrates of Croton Bay in the Hudson River, New York Fish and Game Journal 24(2): 178-196

Eaton, Lawrence (1994) Preliminary survey of benthic macroinvertebrates of Currituck Sound, North Carolina, Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 110(3/4): 121-129

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

Kennedy, Victor S.; DiCosimo, Jane (1983) Subtidal distribution of barnacles (Cirripedia: Balanidae) in Chesapeake Bay, MD., Estuaries 6(2): 95-101

Lang, William H.; Marcy, Martha (1982) Some effects of early starvation on survival and development of barnacle nauplii Balanus improvisus, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 60: 63-70

Larsen, Peter F. (1985) The benthic fauna associated with the oyster reefs of the James River estuary, Virginia, U. S. A., Internationale Revue der Gesamten Hydrobiologie 70(9): 707-814

Pilsbry, Henry A. (1916) The sessile barnacles contained in the collections of the U.S. National Museum, including a monograph of the American species., United States National Museum Bulletin 93: 1-366

Thompson, Michelle Lynne (1993) <missing title>, M.S. Thesis, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA. Pp. <missing location>

2002-2021 Invertebrate zoology collections database. http://collections.nmnh.si.edu/search/iz/


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