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snakelocks anemone
🇳🇱 Wasroos ·Anemonia viridis
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what is it?
The snakelocks anemone ( Anemonia viridis ) is a sea anemone found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea.
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
- Spotted 9 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 13,899 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- snakelocks anemone
- Nederlands
- Wasroos
- scientific name
- Anemonia viridis
- class
- Anthozoa
- order
- Actiniaria
- family
- Actiniidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 9
- sightings in Europe
- 12,126
- sightings worldwide
- 13,899
- GBIF records in NL
- 17
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Actiniidae
#4868 📷 10Dahlia Anemone
🇳🇱 Zeedahlia
Urticina felina
👀 68 in NL
#4870 📷 7Atlantic Beadlet Anemone
🇳🇱 Rode paardenanemoon
Actinia equina
👀 62 in NL
#5020 📷 7Aggregating Anemone
Anthopleura elegantissima
🌍 33.7k seen
#5021 📷 8Sunburst Anemone
Anthopleura sola
🌍 33.7k seen
#5022 📷 7Giant Green Anemone
Anthopleura xanthogrammica
🌍 28.7k seen
#5028 📷 10Moonglow Anemone
Anthopleura artemisia
🌍 10.2k seen
#5029 📷 7Painted Anemone
Urticina grebelnyi
🌍 9.6k seen
#5035 📷 10Waratah Anemone
Actinia tenebrosa
🌍 5.7k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 118895, Wikidata Q1192992, GBIF 2256644, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.