#4519 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans

Southern Pill Woodlouse

Armadillidium depressum

🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Allan Hopkins · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Bernard Noguès · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. 54013 Monzone, Province of Massa and Carrara, Italien:© juliusj · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Lambourn Road, London, England, GB:© dogsarethecoolest · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. 67012 Corroccioni, Province of L'Aquila, Italy:© Emanuele Santarelli · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. 16010 Tiglieto, Gênes, Italie:© Gaëtan Jouvenez · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Farringdon Road, Plymouth PL4 7PY, UK:© elsten63 · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Devonport, Plymouth, UK:© graham street · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Molescroft Road, Beverley, England, GB:© no rights reserved · CC0
10. 83210 Solliès-Toucas, France:© Bernard Noguès · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Armadillidium depressum , the Southern Pill Woodlouse is a large, relatively common British species of woodlouse characterized by its "splayed" appearance.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,137iNaturalist observations

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.
2,137 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich von Brandt in 1833 (193 years ago).