#4974 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Bearded Fireworm
🇳🇱 Vuurworm ·Hermodice carunculata
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in Europe, not in NL
📍 Nassau, The Bahamas
📍 Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands
📍 9400 Barroca, Portugal
📍 Arraial do Cabo - RJ, 28930-000, Brasil
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © hannabohm · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 4. © Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 6. © Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 7. Nassau, The Bahamas:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 8. Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands:© terence zahner · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 9400 Barroca, Portugal:© Marleen Schouten · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Arraial do Cabo - RJ, 28930-000, Brasil:© Rodrigo Canalli · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The bearded fireworm ( Hermodice carunculata ) is a type of marine bristleworm belonging to the Amphinomidae family, native to the tropical Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
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.
- 4,825 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1766 (260 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Bearded Fireworm
- Nederlands
- Vuurworm
- scientific name
- Hermodice carunculata
- class
- Polychaeta
- order
- Amphinomida
- family
- Amphinomidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,221
- sightings worldwide
- 4,825
- GBIF records in NL
- 2
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1766 by Peter Simon Pallas
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 49520, Wikidata Q1410121, GBIF 2317552, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.