#4873 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
San Diego Sea Squirt
Botrylloides diegensis
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0
- 3. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Glenn Biscop · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Robin Gwen Agarwal · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Damon Tighe · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Thomas Dreux · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Robin Gwen Agarwal · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Botrylloides diegensis is een zakpijpensoort uit de familie van de Styelidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1917 door Ritter & Forsyth.
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 56 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #27 most seen of the jellyfish, starfish, worms & co in NL.
- 1,626 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- San Diego Sea Squirt
- scientific name
- Botrylloides diegensis
- class
- Ascidiacea
- order
- Stolidobranchia
- family
- Styelidae
- sightings in NL
- 56
- sightings in Europe
- 444
- sightings worldwide
- 1,626
- GBIF records in NL
- 57
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Styelidae
#4872 📷 10Stalked Sea Squirt
🇳🇱 Japanse knotszakpijp
Styela clava
👀 56 in NL
#4886 📷 10Chain Tunicate
🇳🇱 Gewone slingerzakpijp
Botrylloides violaceus
👀 29 in NL
#4890 📷 7Star Tunicate
🇳🇱 Gesterde geleikorst
Botryllus schlosseri
👀 25 in NL
#4933 📷 10ladder ascidian
🇳🇱 Tweekleurige slingerzakpijp
Botrylloides leachii
👀 8 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 344286, Wikidata Q13442908, GBIF 4354937, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.