#4936 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Oaten Pipes Hydroid
🇳🇱 Penneschaft ·Tubularia indivisa
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Gulen, Norway
📍 Будё, Норвегия
📍 Gun Rocks Dive trail
📍 Bjugn, Norge
📍 3830 Gafanha da Encarnação, Portugal
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Emil B · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Bernard Picton · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. © Vsevolod Rudyi · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Vsevolod Rudyi · CC BY 4.0
- 6. Gulen, Norway:© Bernard Picton · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Будё, Норвегия:© Vsevolod Rudyi · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Gun Rocks Dive trail:© Nicola Faulks · CC BY 4.0
- 9. Bjugn, Norge:© Viktor V. Grøtan · CC BY 4.0
- 10. 3830 Gafanha da Encarnação, Portugal:© Lisia Lopes · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Tubularia indivisa , commonly known as the oaten pipes hydroid , is a species of large hydroid native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, Norwegian Sea, and the English Channel. 59 in). They may be fused to a small number of other individual stems at their bases. The pinkish to red...
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 8 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 190 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Oaten Pipes Hydroid
- Nederlands
- Penneschaft
- scientific name
- Tubularia indivisa
- class
- Hydrozoa
- order
- Anthoathecata
- family
- Tubulariidae
- sightings in NL
- 8
- sightings in Europe
- 80
- sightings worldwide
- 190
- GBIF records in NL
- 15,485
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 461660, Wikidata Q2158000, GBIF 5185603, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.