#5014 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Yellow Gorgonian
Eunicella cavolini
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in Europe, not in NL
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © fabri · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Ronald Werson · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © fabri · CC BY-NC 4.0
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- 8. © David Renoult · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © David Renoult · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Eunicella cavolini , commonly known as the yellow gorgonian or yellow sea whip , is a species of colonial soft coral in the Gorgoniidae family. It is native to parts of the eastern Atlantic Ocean and most of the Mediterranean Sea, where it is a common species.
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.
- 1,273 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1887 (139 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Yellow Gorgonian
- scientific name
- Eunicella cavolini
- class
- Anthozoa
- order
- Malacalcyonacea
- family
- Eunicellidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,012
- sightings worldwide
- 1,273
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1887 by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 358839, Wikidata Q942903, GBIF 2263962, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.