#4864 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Gewone mierenspringstaart
Tomocerus vulgaris
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Noordwijkerhout, Nederland
📍 Wezep, Nederland
📍 Noordwijkerhout, Nederland
📍 Noordwijkerhout, Nederland
📍 Noordwijkerhout, Nederland
📍 Noordwijkerhout, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © AJC1 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © Thorsten Usée · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Andy Murray · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Noordwijkerhout, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 6. Wezep, Nederland:© floris_heemskerk · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Noordwijkerhout, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Noordwijkerhout, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 9. Noordwijkerhout, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Noordwijkerhout, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Tomocerus vulgaris is a species of elongate-bodied springtail in the family Tomoceridae. It is found in Europe.
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 81 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #18 most seen of the jellyfish, starfish, worms & co in NL.
- 3,112 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Gewone mierenspringstaart
- scientific name
- Tomocerus vulgaris
- class
- Entognatha
- order
- Entomobryomorpha
- family
- Tomoceridae
- sightings in NL
- 81
- sightings in Europe
- 1,269
- sightings worldwide
- 3,112
- GBIF records in NL
- 140
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Tomoceridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 472617, Wikidata Q10699767, GBIF 2121897, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.