#4914 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Green Worm
🇳🇱 Groene worm ·Allolobophora chlorotica
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what is it?
Allolobophora chlorotica , or green worm , is a species of earthworm that feeds and lives in soil. This species stands out from other earthworms due to the presence of three 'Sucker-like Discs' on the underside of the clitellum. Worms are many different distantly related animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body and no limbs. An examination of A. chlorotica specimens from many parts of the British Isles suggests that there are two forms of this...
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 12 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,114 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Marie Jules César Savigny in 1826 (200 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Green Worm
- Nederlands
- Groene worm
- scientific name
- Allolobophora chlorotica
- class
- Clitellata
- order
- Crassiclitellata
- family
- Lumbricidae
- sightings in NL
- 12
- sightings in Europe
- 305
- sightings worldwide
- 1,114
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,263
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1826 by Marie Jules César Savigny
relatives· Lumbricidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 347612, Wikidata Q1746581, GBIF 4410938, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.