#5050 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co

Brooding Anemone

Epiactis prolifera

🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 outside Europe

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © passiflora4 · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Donna Pomeroy · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Donna Pomeroy · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © smithsonian_marinegeo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © juliamarkey · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Alison Young · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Epiactis prolifera , the brooding , proliferating or small green anemone , is a species of marine invertebrate in the family Actiniidae. It is found in the north-eastern Pacific. It has a feature rare among animals in that all individuals start life as females but develop testes later in their lives to become hermaphrodites.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,213iNaturalist observations

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.
4,213 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Addison Emery Verrill in 1869 (157 years ago).