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Transverse Range Shoulderband Snail

Helminthoglypta petricola

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

25 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 California.January 15, February 13, March 14, April 17, May 16, June 12, July 10, August 10, September 13, October 14, November 17, December 13.
United States165
California165

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
FamilyXanthonychidae
GenusShoulderband Snails · Helminthoglypta

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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