#4904 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Achtogige bloedzuiger
Erpobdella octoculata
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Flürlein, Stadtsteinach, Bayern, DE
📍 Железногорский р-н, Курская обл., Россия
📍 Os kommun, Norge
📍 Bloc V3, 700259 Iași, România
📍 21102, Lithuania
📍 38VC+PH, 161 00 Praha-Praha 6, Česko
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Lola Smirnova · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Gennadiy Okatov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Johan Kjær Prehn · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Maria · CC BY 4.0
- 5. Flürlein, Stadtsteinach, Bayern, DE:© Kieran Garbutt · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Железногорский р-н, Курская обл., Россия:© Sokolov Yuriy Ivanovich · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Os kommun, Norge:© Torsten Eriksson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Bloc V3, 700259 Iași, România:© matei23 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 21102, Lithuania:© heeeynathan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 38VC+PH, 161 00 Praha-Praha 6, Česko:© Marta · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Erpobdella octoculata is an annelid in the Erpobdellidae family.
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.
- 1,399 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Achtogige bloedzuiger
- scientific name
- Erpobdella octoculata
- class
- Clitellata
- order
- Arhynchobdellida
- family
- Erpobdellidae
- sightings in NL
- 15
- sightings in Europe
- 313
- sightings worldwide
- 1,399
- GBIF records in NL
- 17,943
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 483967, Wikidata Q341177, GBIF 2308846, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.