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Beaded Lancetooth Snail

Ancotrema sportella

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) sidalcea, 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 Washington.January 27, February 23, March 27, April 35, May 44, June 34, July 28, August 27, September 27, October 25, November 22, December 25.
United States630
Washington342
Canada204
British Columbia203
Oregon177
California107
Idaho2
Nevada2
Alberta1

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
OrderCommon Land Snails and Slugs · Stylommatophora
FamilyLancetooth Snails and Allies · Haplotrematidae
GenusAncotrema

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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