#4994 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Trumpet anemone
Aiptasia mutabilis
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what is it?
Aiptasia mutabilis , also known as the trumpet anemone, rock anemone, and glass anemone, is species of anemone typically found attached to substrates in cold waters of the Atlantic. Its unique trumpet shape gives it its common name and it can grow to be 12 cm,having a column between 3 to 6 cm in size. Like many cnidarians, they rely on nematocysts for protection and to capture prey. A. mutabilis, are not difficult to care for, and...
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.
- 2,298 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Trumpet anemone
- scientific name
- Aiptasia mutabilis
- class
- Anthozoa
- order
- Actiniaria
- family
- Aiptasiidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,657
- sightings worldwide
- 2,298
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 578162, Wikidata Q584526, GBIF 2257274, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.