#4940 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Orange-striped Jellyfish
🇳🇱 Japanse kruiskwal ·Gonionemus vertens
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 California, US
📍 Smugglers Cove, Washington, USA
📍 Oakland, CA, USA
📍 Sunshine Coast Regional District, BC, Canada
📍 Mitchell Bay, San Juan Island, WA, USA
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © smithsonian_marinegeo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © smithsonian_marinegeo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © Alexander Semenov · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. California, US:© Siobhan O'Neill · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Smugglers Cove, Washington, USA:© Jen Strongin · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. Oakland, CA, USA:© Richard Hasegawa · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Sunshine Coast Regional District, BC, Canada:© b_patterson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Mitchell Bay, San Juan Island, WA, USA:© Claudia Mills · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Gonionemus vertens is a species of jellyfish.
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 7 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 193 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Alexander Emanuel Agassiz in 1862 (164 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Orange-striped Jellyfish
- Nederlands
- Japanse kruiskwal
- scientific name
- Gonionemus vertens
- class
- Hydrozoa
- order
- Limnomedusae
- family
- Olindiidae
- sightings in NL
- 7
- sightings in Europe
- 22
- sightings worldwide
- 193
- GBIF records in NL
- 66
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1862 by Alexander Emanuel Agassiz
relatives· Olindiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 501046, Wikidata Q2424412, GBIF 2266754, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.