#5016 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
grey leather sponge
Ircinia oros
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in Europe, not in NL
📍 Cala Ferriol
📍 Platja de la Pelosa, 17480, 17480, Girona, Espanya
📍 Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, FR
📍 Cala Jóncols
📍 Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © josepvilanova · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Bernat Garrigós · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Eridan Xharahi · CC BY 4.0
- 6. Cala Ferriol:© Jean-Paul Cassez · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Platja de la Pelosa, 17480, 17480, Girona, Espanya:© eduardmarques · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, FR:© Xavier Rufray · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Cala Jóncols:© manelor · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 10. Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES:© Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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.
- 1,253 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- grey leather sponge
- scientific name
- Ircinia oros
- class
- Demospongiae
- order
- Dictyoceratida
- family
- Irciniidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 979
- sightings worldwide
- 1,253
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Irciniidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 337981, Wikidata Q2747181, GBIF 2239188, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.