Amphibalanus amphitrite, Purple acorn barnacle
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Amphibalanus amphitrite   (Darwin, 1854)

Purple acorn barnacle

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Amphibalanus amphitrite  AquaMaps  Data sources: GBIF OBIS
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Thecostraca | Balanomorpha | Balanidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Sessile; brackish; depth range 0 - 4177 m (Ref. 107353).  Tropical

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Circumglobal.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 3.0 cm WD male/unsexed; (Ref. 7493)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Intertidal (Ref. 81522); Littoral to sublittoral fringe areas; known as a fouling species (Ref. 81749) - on piers, pontoons, and boat hulls (Ref. 102838). In sheltered (Ref. 125338) to exposed rocky shores. Can be found on the shells of predatory gastropods Reishia clavigera and Cellana toreuma (Ref. 127116). Part of both epibenthic and arboreal communities in mangrove areas (Ref. 128397). Sessile suspension feeder (Ref. 125928).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Members of the superorder Thoracica are mostly hermaphroditic. Broadcast spawners, fertilization occurs in the mantle cavity. Life cycle: Eggs hatch into planktonic nauplii and leave the mantle cavity. Afterwards, they undergo six naupliar instars succeded by nonfeeding cypris larva (settling stage) which later metamorphose into adults.

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Paulay, G. and A. Ross 2003 An annotated checklist of the shallow water Cirripedia of Guam. Micronesia 35-36:303-314. (Ref. 7493)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 2.8 - 13.7, mean 4.5 (based on 1972 cells).
Resilience (Ref. 69278): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=0.44-0.47).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low to moderate vulnerability (27 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.

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