#4952 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Mermaid's Glove
🇳🇱 Geweispons ·Haliclona oculata
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Haliclona oculata , sometimes known by the common name mermaid’s glove , is a species of sea sponges that is found in depths of around 1,000 m.
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 5 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,301 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1759 (267 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Mermaid's Glove
- Nederlands
- Geweispons
- scientific name
- Haliclona oculata
- class
- Demospongiae
- order
- Haplosclerida
- family
- Chalinidae
- sightings in NL
- 5
- sightings in Europe
- 92
- sightings worldwide
- 1,301
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1759
relatives· Chalinidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 203694, Wikidata Q3256590, GBIF 5182368, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.