Earlier Records of Elminius modestus Darwin in British Waters

Stubbings, H. G.

doi:10.1038/166277a0

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“…The arrival of the Australasian barnacle Elminius modestus Darwin to Europe is the first well documented transoceanic barnacle invasion (Bishop 1947, Crisp & Chipperfield 1948, Stubbings 1950, Crisp 1958. A more recent example of transoceanic spread is the invasion of Hawaiian shores by the western Atlantic species Chthamalus proteus (Southward et al 1998).…”

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Invasion of Japanese shores by the NE Pacific barnacle Balanus glandula and its ecological and biogeographical impact

Kado¹

2003

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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A common littoral barnacle, Balanus glandula Darwin, 1854 (Crustacea, Cirripedia) from the west coast of North America has become established in the mid-littoral zone of harbors on the Pacific side of northern Honshu, Japan. The new immigrant occupies space in the lower half of the Chthamalus spp. and Balanus albicostatus zones, and in the upper fringe of the Semibalanus cariosus zone. However, the species has not been detected in harbors along the Sea of Japan, south of the Ozika Peninsula, northern Honshu, and to the north and east of Kushiro, Hokkaido. Considering its present distribution, shell sizes, and abundance, it is most likely that it was introduced into 3 separate port areas in NE Honshu, Japan, during the last 20 to 40 yr, probably by anthropogenic activities. It was apparently also introduced to the La Plata estuary, Argentina, during the same period. B. glandula is becoming a dominant littoral zone species, especially in embayments, largely at the expense of the tropical endemic B. albicostatus in the upper littoral fringe. Taking into account the biogeographical distribution of common Japanese barnacles in relation to water temperature, the future distribution of the newly introduced species is considered.

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Invasion of Japanese shores by the NE Pacific barnacle Balanus glandula and its ecological and biogeographical impact

Kado¹

2003

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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“…This species invaded British and European waters during World War II and became well established (Bishop, 1947;Stubbings, 1950;Den Hartog, 1953Crisp, 1958;Barnes & Barnes, 1960a, b, 1961, 1965, 1969Jones, 1961;Fischer-Piette & Forest, 1961;Barnes & Stone, 1972;Hiscock et al, 1978;Flowerdew, 1984). The current dominance of E. modestus is a consistent feature of many European estuaries (Reise et al, 1999;Wolff, 1999;Nehring, 2006).…”

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Distribution of barnacles and dominance of the introduced species Elminius modestus along two estuaries in South-West England

Gomes-Filho

Hawkins

Aquino-Souza

et al. 2010

Mar. Biodivers. Rec.

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Estuaries often show clearly recognizable changes in the distribution of organisms along environmental gradients from riverine to fully marine conditions. Surveys performed along the horizontal axis of the Plym and the Yealm Estuaries identified patterns of distribution and abundance of intertidal barnacles and provided a new assessment on the dominance exhibited by the non-native species Elminius modestus in these estuaries. Elminius modestus occurred furthest up in estuaries and was dominant along most of their length, with the exception of few sites closest to the sea; Chthamalus montagui had the most restricted degree of penetration up-estuary; and Semibalanus balanoides occurred at low abundances, with limits of penetration located between those of C. montagui and E. modestus. At many sites, E. modestus was the only barnacle species found. There were changes in the relative abundances of these three species in several particular locations within the Plym and the Yealm in comparison to previous accounts made in the last decades, which, in most cases led to increased dominance of E. modestus. This was mainly due to reductions in the abundances of S. balanoides. Physico-chemical conditions experienced after settlement, especially deposition of silt, exposure and salinity regime contribute to the patterns described here.

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“…This species was accidentally introduced to the UK (at Chichester Harbour; 50 47 0 N, 0 57 0 W) around 1943 (Bishop, 1947;Stubbings, 1950). It is now widespread in European waters (Crisp, 1958;Crisp and Southward, 1959;Lawson et al, 2004;Allen et al, 2006;Gomes-Filho et al, 2010), present on sheltered shores in the Atlantic, North Sea and Western Mediterranean (Witte et al, 2010;O'Riordan and Ramsay, 2013) and has been described as a 'naturalised' member of European intertidal habitats (Tøttrup et al, 2010).…”

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The invasive barnacle species, Austrominius modestus: Its status and competition with indigenous barnacles on the Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland

Gallagher

Davenport

Gregory

et al. 2015

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

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Earlier Records of Elminius modestus Darwin in British Waters

Cited by 25 publications

References 3 publications

Invasion of Japanese shores by the NE Pacific barnacle Balanus glandula and its ecological and biogeographical impact

Invasion of Japanese shores by the NE Pacific barnacle Balanus glandula and its ecological and biogeographical impact

Distribution of barnacles and dominance of the introduced species Elminius modestus along two estuaries in South-West England

The invasive barnacle species, Austrominius modestus: Its status and competition with indigenous barnacles on the Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland

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