#5015 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Bluish Encrusting Sponge
Phorbas tenacior
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in Europe, not in NL
📍 Girona, ES-CT, ES
📍 Crete, Crete, GR
📍 South Aegean, Aegean, GR
📍 Anse du Petit Nid, 13960, France
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © François Roche · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Bernat Garrigós · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Bernard Picton · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Bernat Garrigós · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Nicolas Lagière · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Gianfrs · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 7. Girona, ES-CT, ES:© Vsevolod Rudyi · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Crete, Crete, GR:© nbasargin · CC BY 4.0
- 9. South Aegean, Aegean, GR:© Nicolas Lagière · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Anse du Petit Nid, 13960, France:© motalec · CC BY-NC 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.
- 1,258 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Bluish Encrusting Sponge
- scientific name
- Phorbas tenacior
- class
- Demospongiae
- order
- Poecilosclerida
- family
- Hymedesmiidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,137
- sightings worldwide
- 1,258
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 486442, Wikidata Q1990027, GBIF 5181173, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.