#5004 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Violescent Sea-whip
Paramuricea clavata
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in Europe, not in NL
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Glenn Biscop · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Luis P. B. · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © David Salvatori · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © Luis P. B. · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Luis P. B. · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © João Pedro Silva · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © João Pedro Silva · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © João Pedro Silva · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Paramuricea clavata , the violescent sea-whip , is a species of colonial soft coral in the family Plexauridae. It is found in shallow seas in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. This species was first described by the French naturalist Antoine Risso in 1826.
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.
- 1,585 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Antoine Risso in 1826 (200 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Violescent Sea-whip
- scientific name
- Paramuricea clavata
- class
- Anthozoa
- order
- Malacalcyonacea
- family
- Acanthogorgiidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,136
- sightings worldwide
- 1,585
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1826 by Antoine Risso
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 338005, Wikidata Q146668, GBIF 2261251, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.