#4516 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Gewone kasoproller
Armadillo officinalis
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in Europe, not in NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Sergio Ibarra · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © doppelhans · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Simon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Tiago Carrapiço · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © faluke · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © cleeb · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Pedro Antonio Lázaro Molinero · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Bastien Le Mort · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Armadillo is a genus of isopods belonging to the family Armadillidae.
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.
- 2,975 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Gewone kasoproller
- scientific name
- Armadillo officinalis
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Isopoda
- family
- Armadillidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 2,443
- sightings worldwide
- 2,975
- GBIF records in NL
- 1
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 319939, Wikidata Q2861701, GBIF 2202347, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.