#4491 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Gespikkelde zeepissebed
Idotea granulosa
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in the Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © duckindisguise · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © dr. Werner de Gier · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © G P Croucher · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. © Pete Mella · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © James Cunningham · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Lucy Mathers · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Somerset, UK:© Rob Sidaway · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Porthcawl, UK:© Dave Hernon · CC BY 4.0
- 9. Somerset, UK:© archie_haddock · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Highland Council, UK:© Robert · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Idotea granulosa is a species of marine isopod in the family Idoteidae.
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 7 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 276 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Gespikkelde zeepissebed
- scientific name
- Idotea granulosa
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Isopoda
- family
- Idoteidae
- sightings in NL
- 7
- sightings in Europe
- 239
- sightings worldwide
- 276
- GBIF records in NL
- 134
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Idoteidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 505626, Wikidata Q2729177, GBIF 5176253, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.