#4928 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Common Flat-backed Millipede
🇳🇱 Grote platrug ·Polydesmus angustus
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Polydesmus angustus , also known as the flat-backed millipede , is a millipede in the genus Polydesmus .
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 9 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 4,179 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Robert Latzel in 1884 (142 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Flat-backed Millipede
- Nederlands
- Grote platrug
- scientific name
- Polydesmus angustus
- class
- Diplopoda
- order
- Polydesmida
- family
- Polydesmidae
- sightings in NL
- 9
- sightings in Europe
- 489
- sightings worldwide
- 4,179
- GBIF records in NL
- 514
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1884 by Robert Latzel
relatives· Polydesmidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 127612, Wikidata Q3719876, GBIF 1020607, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.