#4482 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Staafpissebed
Idotea linearis
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in the Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Chris Isaacs · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Chris Isaacs · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © cciaran · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. 8899 Oost-Vlieland, Nederland:© dgcurrywheel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Norfolk, UK:© cciaran · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. St Catherine's Bay:© Chris Isaacs · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. IJmuiden, Noord-Holland, NL:© radboudp · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Idotea linearis is a species of elongated isopod crustacean.
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 13 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #47 most seen of the crabs & other crustaceans in NL.
- 105 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Staafpissebed
- scientific name
- Idotea linearis
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Isopoda
- family
- Idoteidae
- sightings in NL
- 13
- sightings in Europe
- 97
- sightings worldwide
- 105
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Idoteidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 784942, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.