#4875 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Greenhouse Millipede
🇳🇱 Kasplatrug ·Oxidus gracilis
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Ryosuke Kuwahara · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Ryosuke Kuwahara · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © João Coelho · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Andy Murray · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. © Zoltán Korsós · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Zoltán Korsós · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © Zoltán Korsós · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Jenn Forman Orth · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 9. © Thomas Barbin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © D. Sikes · CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The greenhouse millipede ( Oxidus gracilis ), also known as the hothouse millipede, short-flange millipede, or garden millipede, is a species of millipede in the family Paradoxosomatidae that has been widely introduced around the world, and is sometimes a pest in greenhouses.
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 54 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #29 most seen of the jellyfish, starfish, worms & co in NL.
- 53,404 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Greenhouse Millipede
- Nederlands
- Kasplatrug
- scientific name
- Oxidus gracilis
- class
- Diplopoda
- order
- Polydesmida
- family
- Paradoxosomatidae
- sightings in NL
- 54
- sightings in Europe
- 3,538
- sightings worldwide
- 53,404
- GBIF records in NL
- 87
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 143390, Wikidata Q3887780, GBIF 1017419, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.