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Common Bladder Snail

Physa fontinalis

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 1,137, February 840, March 1,316, April 2,070, May 2,985, June 3,255, July 3,483, August 2,995, September 2,199, October 1,641, November 897, December 701.
United States23,519
Alaska23,518
Russia20
United Kingdom9
Germany9
Poland9
England8
Ukraine7
Denmark6
Lithuania5

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • Shell-bearingProtected by a hard shellFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumMolluscs · Mollusca
ClassGastropods · Gastropoda
FamilyBladder Snails · Physidae
GenusPhysa

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Common Bladder Snail with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.