#4521 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Italian Sea Slater
Ligia italica
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in Europe, not in NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Alonso Ródenas Fernández · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © max06 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Jérémie Février · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Максим Стефанович · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Σάββας Ζαφειρίου (Savvas Zafeiriou) · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © bmig_warren · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Martin Galli · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Ligia italica is een pissebed uit de familie Ligiidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1798 door Johann Christian Fabricius.
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.
- 2,010 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Italian Sea Slater
- scientific name
- Ligia italica
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Isopoda
- family
- Ligiidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,651
- sightings worldwide
- 2,010
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Ligiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 369808, Wikidata Q2622680, GBIF 5175646, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.