#4843 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Branched Dendronotid
Dendronotus venustus
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 outside Europe
7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
Dendronotus venustus is a species of sea slug, a dendronotid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dendronotidae.
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.
- 6,990 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Frank Mace MacFarland in 1966 (60 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Branched Dendronotid
- scientific name
- Dendronotus venustus
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Nudibranchia
- family
- Dendronotidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 6,990
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1966 by Frank Mace MacFarland
relatives· Dendronotidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 129995, Wikidata Q13585029, GBIF 5859668, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.