#4885 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Blunt-tailed Snake Millipede
🇳🇱 Knotskronkel ·Cylindroiulus punctatus
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Marie Lou Legrand · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Joss Carr · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © PaDi · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 7. © Marie Lou Legrand · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Marie Lou Legrand · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Joe Girgente · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Geir Drange · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Cylindroiulus punctatus (also known as the blunt-tailed snake millipede ) is a species of millipede in the Julidae family. It was described by Leach in 1815 and can be found in western Europe, including Great Britain. It has been introduced in North America....
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 30 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #39 most seen of the jellyfish, starfish, worms & co in NL.
- 5,854 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by William Elford Leach in 1815 (211 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Blunt-tailed Snake Millipede
- Nederlands
- Knotskronkel
- scientific name
- Cylindroiulus punctatus
- class
- Diplopoda
- order
- Julida
- family
- Julidae
- sightings in NL
- 30
- sightings in Europe
- 1,600
- sightings worldwide
- 5,854
- GBIF records in NL
- 990
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1815 by William Elford Leach
relatives· Julidae
#4871 📷 7Striped Millipede
🇳🇱 Grote tweestreep
Ommatoiulus sabulosus
👀 62 in NL
#4892 📷 10Brede kronkel
Cylindroiulus caeruleocinctus
👀 21 in NL
#4958 📷 10White-legged Snake Millipede
🇳🇱 Witpootkronkel
Tachypodoiulus niger
👀 2 in NL
#4959 📷 7Dikkronkel
Ommatoiulus rutilans
👀 2 in NL
#4976 📷 9Yellow-legged Pachyiulus
Pachyiulus flavipes
🌍 4.4k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 336972, Wikidata Q3784319, GBIF 1013651, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.