#5003 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Brown Brittle Star
🇳🇱 Gladde slangster ·Ophioderma longicaudum
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in Europe, not in NL
📍 La Garrofa, Almería, Almería, ES
📍 La Spezia, Liguria, IT
📍 Frioul, Marseille, France
📍 Ag. Georgios 383 34, Greece
📍 Biograd na Moru, HR-ZD, HR
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Lupoli Roland · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Ruben Vermeule · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. La Garrofa, Almería, Almería, ES:© Paul Geisendörfer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. La Spezia, Liguria, IT:© Hubert Szczygieł · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Frioul, Marseille, France:© Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Ag. Georgios 383 34, Greece:© MARIA SYNATIKA · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Biograd na Moru, HR-ZD, HR:© Sonja Huc · CC BY-NC 4.0
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 1,604 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Brown Brittle Star
- Nederlands
- Gladde slangster
- scientific name
- Ophioderma longicaudum
- class
- Ophiuroidea
- order
- Ophiacanthida
- family
- Ophiodermatidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,038
- sightings worldwide
- 1,604
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 154578, Wikidata Q965940, GBIF 5187991, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.