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Leather Limpet

Onchidella carpenteri

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

28 photos

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 British Columbia.January 16, February 15, March 23, April 27, May 42, June 37, July 29, August 26, September 23, October 18, November 15, December 15.
United States375
Canada288
British Columbia288
Washington207
California141
Alaska33
Oregon27

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
OrderSystellommatophoran Slugs · Systellommatophora
FamilyTectipleuran Sea Slugs · Onchidiidae
GenusOnchidella

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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