#4847 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Dustbin-lid Jelly
🇳🇱 Zeepaddestoel ·Rhizostoma octopus
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
Rhizostoma octopus , also known as the dustbin-lid jellyfish , is a species of marine invertebrate. They are most commonly found in the English Channel, the North Sea, and the North Atlantic up to the Norwegian Sea.
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 1,092 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #1 most seen of the jellyfish, starfish, worms & co in NL.
- 5,379 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1791 (235 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Dustbin-lid Jelly
- Nederlands
- Zeepaddestoel
- scientific name
- Rhizostoma octopus
- class
- Scyphozoa
- order
- Rhizostomeae
- family
- Rhizostomatidae
- sightings in NL
- 1,092
- sightings in Europe
- 4,949
- sightings worldwide
- 5,379
- GBIF records in NL
- 906
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1791 by Johann Friedrich Gmelin
relatives· Rhizostomatidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 752776, Wikidata Q2595392, GBIF 10583426, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.