#4532 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Goose barnacle
Pollicipes pollicipes
📍 Arcozelo, 4410 Arcozelo, Portugal
📍 Cádiz, España
📍 Berlenga Grande 2520 Peniche, Portugal
📍 La Coruña, Spanyolország
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Diego Garcia · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Diego Garcia · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Duarte Frade · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © geelong-nature-nerd · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Simão Mateus · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Arcozelo, 4410 Arcozelo, Portugal:© André Lobo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Cádiz, España:© Altvio · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Berlenga Grande 2520 Peniche, Portugal:© Nicola Crockford · CC BY 4.0
- 10. La Coruña, Spanyolország:© Tamas Jegh · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Pollicipes pollicipes , known as the goose neck barnacle , goose barnacle or leaf barnacle is a species of goose barnacle, also well known under the taxonomic synonym Pollicipes cornucopia . It is closely related to Pollicipes polymerus , a species with the same common names, but found on the Pacific coast of North America, and to Pollicipes elegans a species from the coast of Chile. It is found on rocky shores in the north-east Atlantic Ocean and is prized...
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 1,203 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Goose barnacle
- scientific name
- Pollicipes pollicipes
- class
- Hexanauplia
- order
- Pollicipedomorpha
- family
- Pollicipedidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,062
- sightings worldwide
- 1,203
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Pollicipedidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 332554, Wikidata Q310943, GBIF 4335722, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.