#4895 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Neonworm
Oxydromus flexuosus
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Dreischor Frans Kok rif, Schouwen-Duiveland, Nederland
📍 Schouwen-Duiveland, Pays-Bas
📍 Dreischor, Frans Kok rif
📍 Zuid Langeweg, 4315 Dreischor, Netherlands
📍 Zeeuwse meren, 158_13_400, NL
📍 Zeeuwse meren, 158_13_400, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Vsevolod Rudyi · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Pascal GIRARD · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Dreischor Frans Kok rif, Schouwen-Duiveland, Nederland:© Lynn Biscop · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Schouwen-Duiveland, Pays-Bas:© Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Dreischor, Frans Kok rif:© Glenn Biscop · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Zuid Langeweg, 4315 Dreischor, Netherlands:© Glenn Biscop · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Zeeuwse meren, 158_13_400, NL:© Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Zeeuwse meren, 158_13_400, NL:© Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
De neonworm ( Oxydromus flexuosus ) is een borstelworm uit de familie Hesionidae. Oxydromus flexuosus werd in 1827 voor het eerst wetenschappelijk beschreven door Stefano Delle Chiaje als Nereis flexuosa .
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 21 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #48 most seen of the jellyfish, starfish, worms & co in NL.
- 61 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Neonworm
- scientific name
- Oxydromus flexuosus
- class
- Polychaeta
- order
- Phyllodocida
- family
- Hesionidae
- sightings in NL
- 21
- sightings in Europe
- 54
- sightings worldwide
- 61
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,914
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 527650, Wikidata Q61613698, GBIF 7189800, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.