#4501 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans

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🇳🇱 Berijpte pissebed ·Porcellionides pruinosus

🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Žilvinas Pūtys · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © sea-kangaroo · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. Sanctuary Mahi Whenua, Point Chevalier, Auckland 1026, New Zealand:© Trevor Crosby · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Christchurch including Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, New Zealand:© Julia Palmer · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Therribri Road, Harparary, NSW, AU:© bommsy8 · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Brummeria:© wickus_ · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Óbidos Municipality, 2510, Portugal:© Thijs Valkenburg · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 03003 Alicante (Alacant), Alicante, España:© Mauricio · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Coimbra, Portugal:© zebedeugalinha · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Porcellionides pruinosus is a cosmopolitan woodlouse that is native to Europe, and is suspected to consist of very closely related species. Ten subspecies are recognised. The species carries Wolbachia endosymbionts, which is an alpha-proteobacterium that is known to modify the reproduction of their crustacean hosts by inducing cytoplasmic incompatibility or feminisation.

base stats

NL sightings 4iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,782iNaturalist observations

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).