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Cuban Leaf Slug

Veronicella cubensis

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) zoerosgen, 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 Hawaii.January 43, February 36, March 51, April 56, May 54, June 42, July 29, August 25, September 24, October 29, November 30, December 42.
Hawaii773
United States367
Guam46
Puerto Rico27
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands12
United States Virgin Islands4
Mexico2
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave2
Wisconsin1

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
FamilyLeatherleaf Slugs · Veronicellidae
GenusVeronicella

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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