#4903 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Dwarf Brittle Star
🇳🇱 Levendbarende slangster ·Amphipholis squamata
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Amphipholis squamata , common names brooding snake star and dwarf brittle star , is a species of brittle star in the family Amphiuridae.
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 15 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,183 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Stefano delle Chiaje in 1828 (198 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Dwarf Brittle Star
- Nederlands
- Levendbarende slangster
- scientific name
- Amphipholis squamata
- class
- Ophiuroidea
- order
- Amphilepidida
- family
- Amphiuridae
- sightings in NL
- 15
- sightings in Europe
- 1,294
- sightings worldwide
- 3,183
- GBIF records in NL
- 347
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1828 by Stefano delle Chiaje
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 56690, Wikidata Q1922756, GBIF 2278157, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.