#4485 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Pelagic Gooseneck Barnacle
🇳🇱 Grote eendenmossel ·Lepas anatifera
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in the Netherlands
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- 1. © tangatawhenua · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Lawrence Haselmaier · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Lawrence Haselmaier · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Cos van Wermeskerken · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Lawrence Haselmaier · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Ken · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © tangatawhenua · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Joss Carr · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Jacqui Geux · CC BY 4.0
- 10. © tangatawhenua · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Lepas anatifera , commonly known as the pelagic gooseneck barnacle or smooth gooseneck barnacle , is a species of barnacle in the family Lepadidae. These barnacles are found, often in large numbers, attached by their flexible stalks to floating timber, the hulls of ships, piers, pilings, seaweed and various sorts of flotsam.
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 10 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #50 most seen of the crabs & other crustaceans in NL.
- 3,623 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Pelagic Gooseneck Barnacle
- Nederlands
- Grote eendenmossel
- scientific name
- Lepas anatifera
- class
- Hexanauplia
- order
- Scalpellomorpha
- family
- Lepadidae
- sightings in NL
- 10
- sightings in Europe
- 808
- sightings worldwide
- 3,623
- GBIF records in NL
- 766
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 69949, Wikidata Q2716301, GBIF 5166339, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.