Balanus crenatus   Bruguière, 1789

Crenate barnacle

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Balanus crenatus

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

Thecostraca | Balanomorpha | Balanidae

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

Sessile; brackish; depth range 1 - 182 m (Ref. 126559).  Temperate

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Arctic, Eastern Pacific, Northern Atlantic and the Mediterranean: Canadian Arctic Archipelago and British Isles.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 2.0 cm WD male/unsexed; (Ref. 3719)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Most commonly found in the subtidal zone, on the underside of smooth rocks, but very infrequently on highly brackish water. Individuals occur as fouling organisms on ship bottoms and docks, inside crab carapace, mussle shells, and plate limpets, also in bottles, wood, and kelp (Ref. 126559). Naupliar stage larvae are found in the water column and are flushed back into the sea with the fresh water outflow. Larvae migrate into estuaries at a later stage where they settle (Ref. 126559). Found in muddy substrates associated with organic pollutants (Ref. 96352) and on mixed sediments with gravel, pebbles and sand (Ref. 118257). This is an attached (Ref. 3123), epibenthic species (Ref. 95730). Suspension feeder (Ref. 118257). A microvore that feeds on organic detritus (Ref. 96352).

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

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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 4 - 12.8, mean 9.1 (based on 674 cells).
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.