#5009 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Green Spoonworm
Bonellia viridis
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in Europe, not in NL
📍 Montredon, Marseille, France
📍 South Aegean, Aegean, GR
📍 Drenje, Raša, Kroatien
📍 Thessaly, Thessaly and Central Greece, GR
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © João Pedro Silva · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Montredon, Marseille, France:© Thomas Menut · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. South Aegean, Aegean, GR:© Nicolas Lagière · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Drenje, Raša, Kroatien:© Beat Akeret · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Thessaly, Thessaly and Central Greece, GR:© MARIA SYNATIKA · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Bonellia viridis , the green spoonworm , is a marine worm (Class Echiura, phylum Annelida) noted for displaying exceptional sexual dimorphism and for the biocidal properties of a pigment in its skin....
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.
- 1,411 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Luigi Rolando in 1822 (204 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Green Spoonworm
- scientific name
- Bonellia viridis
- class
- Polychaeta
- order
- Echiuroidea
- family
- Bonelliidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,286
- sightings worldwide
- 1,411
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1822 by Luigi Rolando
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 205252, Wikidata Q2341608, GBIF 5234395, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.