#4460 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Baltic Isopod
🇳🇱 Gewone zeepissebed ·Idotea balthica
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Zandvoort, Koper-Passerel/Station, 2042 KV Zandvoort, Niederlande
📍 Strand Breezand Vrouwenpolder, Zeeland, NL
📍 1791 PP Den Burg, Niederlande
📍 4315 Dreischor, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Ryan Andrews · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © cyric · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © wsimmons · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Alex Shure · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Zandvoort, Koper-Passerel/Station, 2042 KV Zandvoort, Niederlande:© mdenner · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Strand Breezand Vrouwenpolder, Zeeland, NL:© savanloon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 1791 PP Den Burg, Niederlande:© Otto Fonfheist · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 4315 Dreischor, Nederland:© Marleen Schouten · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Idotea balthica is a marine isopod which lives on seaweed and seagrass in the subtidal zone of rocky shores.
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 49 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #25 most seen of the crabs & other crustaceans in NL.
- 3,296 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1772 (254 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Baltic Isopod
- Nederlands
- Gewone zeepissebed
- scientific name
- Idotea balthica
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Isopoda
- family
- Idoteidae
- sightings in NL
- 49
- sightings in Europe
- 1,177
- sightings worldwide
- 3,296
- GBIF records in NL
- 775
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1772 by Peter Simon Pallas
relatives· Idoteidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 203466, Wikidata Q1305770, GBIF 5176195, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.