#4986 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Oyster Sponge
Crambe crambe
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in Europe, not in NL
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Adrien Lowenstein - Anaïs Berry · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Alberto Garcia · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. © David Renoult · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Pauline Fey · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 9. © Dean Zagorac · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Crambe crambe , the oyster sponge or orange-red encrusting sponge , is a species of demosponges belonging to the family Crambeidae....
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.
- 2,896 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Eduard Oscar Schmidt in 1862 (164 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Oyster Sponge
- scientific name
- Crambe crambe
- class
- Demospongiae
- order
- Poecilosclerida
- family
- Crambeidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,786
- sightings worldwide
- 2,896
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1862 by Eduard Oscar Schmidt
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 363864, Wikidata Q1883674, GBIF 5181275, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.