#4486 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Carr Slater
🇳🇱 Buispissebed ·Ligidium hypnorum
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- 1. © Leif Moritz · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Johan Kjær Prehn · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Jörg Pageler · CC BY-NC 4.0
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what is it?
Ligidium hypnorum is a species of woodlouse found across Europe and western Asia. 35 in). It is dark and shiny, and is similar in appearance to the common species Philoscia muscorum , and also the rarer Oritoniscus flavus . In Great Britain, it was first discovered at Copthorne Common, Surrey in 1873, and the majority of later records are also from South East England. It is...
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 10 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 472 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Georges Cuvier in 1792 (234 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Carr Slater
- Nederlands
- Buispissebed
- scientific name
- Ligidium hypnorum
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Isopoda
- family
- Ligiidae
- sightings in NL
- 10
- sightings in Europe
- 448
- sightings worldwide
- 472
- GBIF records in NL
- 644
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1792 by Georges Cuvier
relatives· Ligiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 371954, Wikidata Q3932178, GBIF 4416652, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.