#4911 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Buikstreepnemertijn
Tubulanus superbus
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Place Lacaze-Duthiers, Roscoff, Bretagne, FR
📍 Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, FR
📍 Ørland, Norge
📍 Schouwen-Duiveland, Nederland
📍 Zeelandbrug, Zierikzee, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Chris Isaacs · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Chris Isaacs · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Glenn Biscop · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Glenn Biscop · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Chris Isaacs · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Place Lacaze-Duthiers, Roscoff, Bretagne, FR:© pougeon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, FR:© Pierre Corbrion · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 8. Ørland, Norge:© Viktor V. Grøtan · CC BY 4.0
- 9. Schouwen-Duiveland, Nederland:© floris_heemskerk · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Zeelandbrug, Zierikzee, Netherlands:© Glenn Biscop · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Tubulanus superbus , commonly known as the football jersey worm , is a species of ribbon worm in the phylum Nemertea. Found in the northern Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, it occurs from the lower shore down to about 80 m (260 ft), on sand or gravel.
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 14 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 35 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Buikstreepnemertijn
- scientific name
- Tubulanus superbus
- class
- Palaeonemertea
- order
- Tubulaniformes
- family
- Tubulanidae
- sightings in NL
- 14
- sightings in Europe
- 25
- sightings worldwide
- 35
- GBIF records in NL
- 24
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 559315, Wikidata Q2220389, GBIF 2508154, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.