#4528 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Yellow Dot Isopod
Porcellio ornatus
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in Europe, not in NL
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what is it?
Porcellio ornatus is een pissebed uit de familie Porcellionidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1840 door H. Milne Edwards.
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.
- 1,403 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Yellow Dot Isopod
- scientific name
- Porcellio ornatus
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Isopoda
- family
- Porcellionidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,370
- sightings worldwide
- 1,403
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Porcellionidae
#4436 📷 10Common Rough Woodlouse
🇳🇱 Ruwe pissebed
Porcellio scaber
👀 2.2k in NL
#4447 📷 10Brickwork Woodlouse
🇳🇱 Zwartkoppissebed
Porcellio spinicornis
👀 229 in NL
#4501 📷 10Powder Blue Isopod
🇳🇱 Berijpte pissebed
Porcellionides pruinosus
👀 4 in NL
#4508 📷 10Swift Woodlouse
🇳🇱 Gladde Pissebed
Porcellio laevis
🌍 9.2k seen
#4530 📷 10Rotspissebed
Porcellio monticola
🌍 1.4k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 484668, Wikidata Q2485971, GBIF 6284527, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.