#5012 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Pink Flatworm
🇳🇱 Roze mediterrane platworm ·Prostheceraeus roseus
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in Europe, not in NL
📍 Golfo di Taranto, , Puglia, IT
📍 Cala Margarida, Palamós
📍 El Tascó Petit
📍 Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES
📍 Leiria, Portugal
📍 2970 Sesimbra, Portugal
📍 Girona, Cataluña, Spain
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © whodden · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © whodden · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 4. Golfo di Taranto, , Puglia, IT:© Gianfrs · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. Cala Margarida, Palamós:© josepvilanova · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. El Tascó Petit:© Jean-Paul Cassez · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES:© Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. Leiria, Portugal:© João Pedro Silva · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 2970 Sesimbra, Portugal:© Ana Santos · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Girona, Cataluña, Spain:© Bernat Garrigós · 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.
- 1,302 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Pink Flatworm
- Nederlands
- Roze mediterrane platworm
- scientific name
- Prostheceraeus roseus
- order
- Polycladida
- family
- Euryleptidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,140
- sightings worldwide
- 1,302
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 338008, Wikidata Q2006841, GBIF 6479233, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.