#4947 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Gewone platrug
Polydesmus denticulatus
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands
📍 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands
📍 Praha 20, CZ-SK, CZ
📍 Kirschallee, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DE
📍 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands
📍 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands
📍 Stams, 6422, Österreich
📍 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands
📍 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © lappuggla · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands:© Michael Bakker Paiva · CC BY 4.0
- 3. 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands:© Michael Bakker Paiva · CC BY 4.0
- 4. Praha 20, CZ-SK, CZ:© Michal Honskus · CC BY 4.0
- 5. Kirschallee, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DE:© Yannick _Wrt · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands:© Michael Bakker Paiva · CC BY 4.0
- 7. 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands:© Michael Bakker Paiva · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Stams, 6422, Österreich:© Moritz Falch · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands:© Michael Bakker Paiva · CC BY 4.0
- 10. 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands:© Michael Bakker Paiva · CC BY 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
- Spotted 6 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 36 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1847 (179 years ago).
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Gewone platrug
- scientific name
- Polydesmus denticulatus
- class
- Diplopoda
- order
- Polydesmida
- family
- Polydesmidae
- sightings in NL
- 6
- sightings in Europe
- 13
- sightings worldwide
- 36
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1847 by Carl Ludwig Koch
relatives· Polydesmidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 336991, Wikidata Q6447166, GBIF 1020740. Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.