#4883 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Nightcrawler
🇳🇱 Gewone Regenworm ·Lumbricus terrestris
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © alicia penney · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Jeremiah Degenhardt · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Katherine C. MacKinnon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © thirty_legs · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © tiskolin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Марина Горбунова-Ëлкина · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Degtyarev Nikolai Ivanovich · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Марина Горбунова-Ëлкина · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Lumbricus terrestris is a large, reddish worm species widely distributed around the world (along with several other lumbricids). In some areas where it is an introduced species, some people consider it a serious pest for outcompeting native worms.
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 31 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #37 most seen of the jellyfish, starfish, worms & co in NL.
- 9,794 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Nightcrawler
- Nederlands
- Gewone Regenworm
- scientific name
- Lumbricus terrestris
- class
- Clitellata
- order
- Crassiclitellata
- family
- Lumbricidae
- sightings in NL
- 31
- sightings in Europe
- 1,404
- sightings worldwide
- 9,794
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,258
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Lumbricidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 81545, Wikidata Q30092, GBIF 4410657, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.