Cornish Biodiversity Network - Supporting Wildlife Recording
The descriptive text, below the map, is from the Cornish Red Data Book (2009). The map on this web page depicts the organisms distribution and shows the records made pre-2000 and those made since.
Range & Status
This colder-water species, previously known as Balanus hameri , is commonest around the northern British coasts and northern North Sea. It has always been rare in Cornish waters, the southern-most limit of its distribution range. It is found sublittorally at 20-200m depth, most often on other biological structures. There is a single, relatively recent (1981) record from the Whitesand Bay area of south-east Cornwall, although Southward (2008) states that it is no longer found alive in the English Channel.
I.J. Bennallick, S. Board, C.N. French, P.A. Gainey, C. Neil, R. Parslow, A. Spalding and P.E. Tompsett. eds. 2009. Red Data Book for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. 2nd Edition.Croceago Press.
The Cornish Red Data Book Project was led by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Federation for Biological Recorders (CISFBR). The full text and species accounts (minus the maps) are available on the CISFBR website.