#4867 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Sea Gooseberry
🇳🇱 Zeedruif ·Pleurobrachia pileus
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Pleurobrachia pileus is a species of comb jelly, commonly known as a sea gooseberry . It is found in open water in the northern Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, and was first described by the Danish zoologist Otto Friedrich Müller in 1776.
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
- Spotted 70 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #21 most seen of the jellyfish, starfish, worms & co in NL.
- 2,063 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1776 (250 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Sea Gooseberry
- Nederlands
- Zeedruif
- scientific name
- Pleurobrachia pileus
- class
- Tentaculata
- order
- Cydippida
- family
- Cydippidae
- sightings in NL
- 70
- sightings in Europe
- 767
- sightings worldwide
- 2,063
- GBIF records in NL
- 22,822
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1776 by Otto Friedrich Müller
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 191599, Wikidata Q1552292, GBIF 2501136, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.