#2142 · 🐟 fish
Five-bearded Rockling
🇳🇱 Vijfdradige meun ·Ciliata mustela
📍 Ards and North Down, UK
📍 Le Hocq, St Clement
📍 Donegal, Ireland
📍 Northern Ireland, UK
📍 Sligo, IE
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Fisher91 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © tamsynmann · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
- 6. Ards and North Down, UK:© Roy Anderson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Le Hocq, St Clement:© Nicolas Jouault · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Donegal, Ireland:© Siobhan O'Neill · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Northern Ireland, UK:© Roy Anderson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Sligo, IE:© Gordon Love · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The fivebeard rockling ( Ciliata mustela ) is a coastal fish of the family Lotidae. 9 in) long. It lives in shallow water on muddy and sandy seafloors, sometimes in the littoral zone. It is sometimes found by turning over rocks and debris on mudflats at low tide.
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 7 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 749 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Five-bearded Rockling
- Nederlands
- Vijfdradige meun
- scientific name
- Ciliata mustela
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Gadiformes
- family
- Gaidropsaridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 7
- sightings in Europe
- 550
- sightings worldwide
- 749
- GBIF records in NL
- 23,763
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 320326, Wikidata Q867366, GBIF 2415526, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.