#4859 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Dicyrtoma fusca
Dicyrtoma fusca
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Dicyrtoma fusca is a species of springtail found in the United States and Europe.
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 135 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #13 most seen of the jellyfish, starfish, worms & co in NL.
- 2,434 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- scientific name
- Dicyrtoma fusca
- class
- Entognatha
- order
- Symphypleona
- family
- Dicyrtomidae
- sightings in NL
- 135
- sightings in Europe
- 2,041
- sightings worldwide
- 2,434
- GBIF records in NL
- 348
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Dicyrtomidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 243567, Wikidata Q14850333, GBIF 4536992, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.