#4990 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Daisy Anemone
🇳🇱 Zonneroos ·Cereus pedunculatus
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in Europe, not in NL
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
Cereus pedunculatus or the daisy anemone is a species of sea anemone in the family Sagartiidae. It is found in shallow parts of the northeast Atlantic Ocean and in the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. It is an omnivore, predator and scavenger.
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.
- 2,622 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Thomas Pennant in 1777 (249 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Daisy Anemone
- Nederlands
- Zonneroos
- scientific name
- Cereus pedunculatus
- class
- Anthozoa
- order
- Actiniaria
- family
- Sagartiidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 2,056
- sightings worldwide
- 2,622
- GBIF records in NL
- 126
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1777 by Thomas Pennant
relatives· Sagartiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 481214, Wikidata Q2233415, GBIF 5184341, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.