Amphibalanus improvisus
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| Species: | B. improvisus
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Balanus improvisus is a species of acorn barnacle.
It is not known where the species natural range lies, but it has colonised many parts of the world's oceans as a biofouling agent on the hulls of ships.[2] It was one of the first recorded introductions to the Baltic Sea, having been found in Sweden and Lithuania in 1844, the Elbe estuary in 1854 and Great Britain in the 1880s.[3]
References
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- ^ "Balanus improvisus Darwin, 1854". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ^ WoRMS (2009). "Balanus improvisus Darwin, 1854". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved April 18, 2010.
- ^ "Bay barnacle (Balanus improvisus)" (PDF). Främmande arter i svenska hav. Retrieved April 18, 2010.
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