#4559 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Pink Volcano Barnacle
Tetraclita rubescens
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 outside Europe
📍 San Mateo County, CA, USA
📍 Pacific Grove, CA, USA
📍 Cotoni-Coast Dairies, CA, US
📍 Pacific Ocean, CA, US
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Cricket Raspet · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © blueskyes · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Chris Evers · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © juliamarkey · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © katgrom · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Gary Griffith · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 7. San Mateo County, CA, USA:© JJ Johnson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Pacific Grove, CA, USA:© Diego Tamayo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Cotoni-Coast Dairies, CA, US:© Zoe G · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Pacific Ocean, CA, US:© angielalah · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Tetraclita rubescens , the pink volcano barnacle , is a species of sessile barnacle in the family Tetraclitidae.
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.
- 6,246 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Pink Volcano Barnacle
- scientific name
- Tetraclita rubescens
- class
- Hexanauplia
- order
- Balanomorpha
- family
- Tetraclitidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 6,246
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 121682, Wikidata Q4301570, GBIF 2115806, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.