#2242 · 🐟 fish
Greater Weever
🇳🇱 Grote pieterman ·Trachinus draco
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Falk Viczian Solarboot-Projekte gGmbH · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © whodden · CC BY-NC 4.0
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- 5. © Falk Viczian Solarboot-Projekte gGmbH · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © IHUNTA · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES:© Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES:© Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 9. Tsambika, Griechenland:© wingwatcher48 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES:© Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
what is it?
The greater weever ( Trachinus draco , Linnaeus 1758) is a benthic and demersal venomous marine fish of the family Trachinidae. The greater weever is widely distributed along the eastern Atlantic coastline from Norway to Morocco, extending to the Mediterranean, Aegean and Black Seas. Trachinus draco has been shown to occur in depths ranging from shallow water up to -150 meters where it inhabits mostly muddy or sandy grounds. Trachinus draco is mostly and notoriously known for its...
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.
- 1,285 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Greater Weever
- Nederlands
- Grote pieterman
- scientific name
- Trachinus draco
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Perciformes
- family
- Trachinidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 808
- sightings worldwide
- 1,285
- GBIF records in NL
- 154
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 118652, Wikidata Q900344, GBIF 2386475, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.