Balanus balanus   (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rough barnacle
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Balanus balanus

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Thecostraca | Balanomorpha | Balanidae

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

Sessile; brackish; depth range 27 - 237 m (Ref. 117328).  Temperate; 82°N - 51°S, 158°E - 66°E

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Arctic, Pacific Ocean and Northern Atlantic: from Avacha, Kamchatka to New Zealand, east to Canada and Europe, and north to Franz Josef Land. Temperate to polar.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 3.0 cm WD male/unsexed; (Ref. 3719)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

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

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 1963. (Ref. 3719)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses


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BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.