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title: "Percebe de bahía"
description: "Amphibalanus improvisus — Otros animales. Amphibalanus improvisus, the bay barnacle, European acorn barnacle, is a species of acorn barnacle in the family Balanidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/bay-barnacle
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Percebe de bahía

> Amphibalanus improvisus — Otros animales. Amphibalanus improvisus, the bay barnacle, European acorn barnacle, is a species of acorn barnacle in the family Balanidae.

- Scientific name: *Amphibalanus improvisus*
- Category: `other` (Otros animales)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar y costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 4023
- Wikidata: [Q13366382](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13366382)
- iNaturalist taxon: [193877](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/193877)

## Names

- en: Bay Barnacle
- de: Brackwasser-Seepocke
- es: Percebe de bahía
- fr: Petite balane ivoire

## Countries with the most observations

US (380), FI (128), RU (118), PL (117), BG (73), LT (72), UA (71), SE (58), LV (47), DK (29), CA (28), IR (25)

## Summary

Amphibalanus improvisus, the bay barnacle, European acorn barnacle, is a species of acorn barnacle in the family Balanidae.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibalanus_improvisus

## Photo

![Percebe de bahía](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/bay-barnacle/medium.jpg)

Photo: Tomas Pocius · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/143018610

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/bay-barnacle?lang=es` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).