#4995 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Yellow Cluster Anemone
🇳🇱 Gele korstanemoon ·Parazoanthus axinellae
📍 Benidorm Island, Alicante, Spain
📍 Medes Islands, Girona, Spain
📍 Anse du Petit Nid, 13960, France
📍 Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES
📍 Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES
📍 Anse du Petit Nid, 13960, France
📍 Saména, Marseille, France
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Maximilian Wagner · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. Benidorm Island, Alicante, Spain:© Edu Alcaniz · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © clairebayon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Medes Islands, Girona, Spain:© Vsevolod Rudyi · CC BY 4.0
- 6. Anse du Petit Nid, 13960, France:© lucane · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES:© Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES:© Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 9. Anse du Petit Nid, 13960, France:© lucane · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Saména, Marseille, France:© Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Parazoanthus axinellae , the yellow cluster anemone is a zoanthid coral found on the southern Atlantic coasts of Europe and in the Mediterranean Sea. Zoanthids differ from true sea anemones, in having a different internal anatomy and in forming true colonies in which the individual animals (polyps) are connected by a common tissue, called the coenenchyme.
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.
- 2,290 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Eduard Oscar Schmidt in 1862 (164 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Yellow Cluster Anemone
- Nederlands
- Gele korstanemoon
- scientific name
- Parazoanthus axinellae
- class
- Anthozoa
- order
- Zoantharia
- family
- Parazoanthidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,746
- sightings worldwide
- 2,290
- GBIF records in NL
- 1
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1862 by Eduard Oscar Schmidt
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 338001, Wikidata Q3021254, GBIF 2258030, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.