🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Snakelocks Anemone live?

Anemonia viridis has 26,181 records in 33 countries and territories, from 1860 to 2026. Most records come from United Kingdom.

AnimaliaCnidariaAnthozoaActiniariaActiniidaeAnemonia

When it is recorded

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Peak month: August. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United Kingdom 9,875
France 6,704
Spain 3,305
Ireland 1,668
Portugal 1,274
Jersey 1,260
Croatia 468
Italy 391
Isle of Man 344
Greece 308
Guernsey 136
Morocco 75
Türkiye 51
Slovenia 49
Israel 40
Cyprus 37
Malta 34
Albania 32
Montenegro 29
Algeria 25
Norway 20
Netherlands 17
Syria 10
Tunisia 10
Western Sahara 4
Mauritania 3
Denmark 2
Egypt 2
Gibraltar 2
Lebanon 2
Bosnia & Herzegovina 1
Libya 1
Monaco 1

Related animals

Others in the family Actiniidae.

Dahlia Anemone
22,238 records
bulb tentacle sea anemone
2,895 records
Glyphoperidium bursa
291 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.