#4999 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
black leather sponge
Sarcotragus spinosulus
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in Europe, not in NL
📍 Kuşadası, TR-AY, TR
📍 Ionian Islands, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands, Greece
📍 West Greece, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands, Greece
📍 South Aegean, Aegean, GR
📍 Girona, ES-CT, ES
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © jjulio2000 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Dean Zagorac · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Juan José Areso · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © carlos_wenham · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Tom Turner · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Kuşadası, TR-AY, TR:© Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 7. Ionian Islands, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands, Greece:© Falk Viczian Solarboot-Projekte gGmbH · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. West Greece, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands, Greece:© Falk Viczian Solarboot-Projekte gGmbH · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. South Aegean, Aegean, GR:© Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Girona, ES-CT, ES:© eduardmarques · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Sarcotragus spinosulus is een sponssoort in de taxonomische indeling van de gewone sponzen (Demospongiae). Het lichaam van de spons bestaat uit kiezelnaalden en sponginevezels, en is in staat om veel water op te nemen.
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.
- 1,852 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- black leather sponge
- scientific name
- Sarcotragus spinosulus
- class
- Demospongiae
- order
- Dictyoceratida
- family
- Irciniidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,341
- sightings worldwide
- 1,852
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Irciniidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 507766, Wikidata Q2672326, GBIF 2239000, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.