#4496 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Wrinkled Barnacle
🇳🇱 Gekartelde zeepok ·Balanus crenatus
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Balanus crenatus is a species of acorn barnacle in the Balanidae family. It is found in the North Pacific and the North Atlantic Ocean.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 5 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,453 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Jean Guillaume Bruguière in 1789 (237 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Wrinkled Barnacle
- Nederlands
- Gekartelde zeepok
- scientific name
- Balanus crenatus
- class
- Hexanauplia
- order
- Balanomorpha
- family
- Balanidae
- sightings in NL
- 5
- sightings in Europe
- 115
- sightings worldwide
- 2,453
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,053
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1789 by Jean Guillaume Bruguière
relatives· Balanidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 117672, Wikidata Q542791, GBIF 2115701, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.