Species Regional Summary
Amphibalanus improvisus
None ( NWP-4a )

Invasion History Vectors Impacts References

Invasion

Invasion Description

1st record: Kodomari/Japan/Wakasa Bay (1968, Utinomi 1970)

Geographic Extent

Kodomari/Japan/Wakasa Bay (1968, Utinomi 1970); Otomi/Japan/Wakasa Bay (1968, Utinomi 1970); Honshu/Japan/Sakai Port, Enzi, Lakes Nakaumi, Matue and Sinzi-Ko (Sea of Japan) (1968, Utinomi 1970); Honshu/Japan/Lake Zinzi ko, Simane-Ken (1968, Utinomi 1970); Kanking-Chinhan/South Korea/Sea of Japan, 7 locations (Kim 1992; Parket al. 2017; Kim et al. 2020); Primorskii Krai/Russia/Pos'yet Bay (Zevina and Goryn 1971); Primorskii Krai/Russia/Amur Bay (Zevina and Goryn 1971); Yaskol'd Island, Primorskii Krai/Russia/Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan (Zevina and Goryn 1971; Zvyagintsev et al. 2011); ; Primorskii Krai/Russia/Pos'yet Bay (Zevina and Goryn 1971); Qingdao/China/Yellow Sea (1978, Chavanich et al. 2010); South Korea/Yellow Sea (Park et al. 2017)

Vectors

Level Vector
Alternate Ballast Water
Alternate Hull Fouling

Regional Impacts

Economic ImpactIndustry
In Russian waters of the Sea of Japan, A. improvisus is an abundant fouling organism of power plants, docks, and ships in Zolotoi Rog (Golden Horn) Bay in the vicinity of Vladivostok (Zvyagintsev 1985; Kashin et al. 2000; Zvyagintsev et al. 2003).
 
Economic ImpactShipping/Boating
In Russian waters of the Sea of Japan, A. improvisus is an abundant fouling organism of power plants, docks, and ships in Zolotoi Rog (Golden Horn) Bay in the vicinity of Vladivostok (Zvyagintsev 1985; Kashin et al. 2000; Koryakova et al. 2002; Zvyagintsev et al. 2004).
 

References

Chavanich, S.; Tan, L. T.; Vallejo, B.; Viyakarn, V. (2010) <missing title>, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Subcommission for the Western Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand. Pp. 1-61

Kashin, I. A.; Zvyagintsev, A. Yu;. Maslennikov, S. I. (2000) Fouling of hydrotechnical structures in western Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan., Russian Journal of Marine Biology 26(2): 89-97

Kim, I-H. (1992) Invasion of foreign barnacles into Korean waters, Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology 8(2): 163-176

Li, Xinzhengl Shenz. Anglv; Xu, zhaou (2008) Report on some shrimos from dontou Island, Zhejiang, China (Decapoda, Natantia, Crustaceana (Leiden) <missing volume>: <missing location>

Utinomi, Huzio (1970) Studies on the Cirripedian Fauna of Japan.IX., Distributional Survey of Thoracic Cirripeds in the Southeastern part of the Japan Sea, Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 17(5): 339-372

Zevina, G. B.; Goryn, A. N. (1971) Invasion of Balanus improvisus and B. eburneus into the Sea of Japan., Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 50(5): 771-773

Zvyaginstev, A. Yu.; Radashevsky, V. I.; Ivin, V. V.; Kashin, I. A.; Gorodkov, A. N. (2011) Nonindigenous species in the far-eastern seas of Russia, Russian Journal of Biological Invasions 2(1): 164-182

Zvyagintsev, A. Yu . (1985) Succession of fouling communities of a ship during one navigation in Peter the Great Bay (the Sea of Japan), Soviet Journal of Marine Biology 21(3): 134-140

Zvyagintsev, A. Yu. (2003) Introduction of species into the Northwestern Sea of Japan and the problem of marine fouling., Russian Journal of Marine Biology 29(Suppl. 1:): 10-21


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