Species under Amphibalanus
n= 11
Species name Common name Distribution Max. Length (cm)
Amphibalanus amphitrite
(Darwin, 1854)
Purple acorn barnacle Circumglobal 3
Amphibalanus cirratus
(Darwin, 1854)
Indo-West Pacific
Amphibalanus eburneus
(Gould, 1841)
Western Atlantic 3
Amphibalanus improvisus
(Darwin, 1854)
Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean, Black Sea and Eastern Indian Ocean
Amphibalanus poecilotheca
(Kruger, 1911)
Indo-West Pacific
Amphibalanus reticulatus
(Utinomi, 1967)
Northeast Atlantic
Amphibalanus rhizophorae
(Ren & Liu, 1989)
Indo-West Pacific
Amphibalanus subalbidus
(Henry, 1973)
Western Indian Ocean and Western Atlantic
Amphibalanus variegatus
(Darwin, 1854)
Indo-West Pacific
Amphibalanus venustus
(Darwin, 1854)
Circumglobal
Amphibalanus zhujiangensis
(Ren, 1989)
Northwest Pacific
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