#4561 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Western Sea Slater
Ligia occidentalis
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 outside Europe
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © JJ Johnson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Thorny Toad Photography · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © dlbowls · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © juliamarkey · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Don Loarie · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Rebecca Johnson · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © Damon Tighe · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Keir Morse · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 9. © JJ Johnson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Alex Bairstow · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Ligia occidentalis is a species of rock slater in the family Ligiidae. It is found in North America.
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.
- 6,092 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Western Sea Slater
- scientific name
- Ligia occidentalis
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Isopoda
- family
- Ligiidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 6,092
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Ligiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 117674, Wikidata Q1937874, GBIF 5175619, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.