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Pencil Isopod

Pentidotea aculeata

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) pansoms, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in California.

United States	151
California	145
Washington	6

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

Traits

Physical

ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Arthropods · Arthropoda
Class	Malacostracans · Malacostraca
Order	Isopods · Isopoda
Family	Common Valvetails · Idoteidae
Genus	Pentidotea

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

Remember the name next time.

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

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