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Black-foot Slipper Snail

Crepidula atrasolea

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

6 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

United States32
Georgia1
Delaware1
Maryland1

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
OrderLittorinimorpha
FamilySlippersnails · Calyptraeidae
GenusTypical Slippersnails · Crepidula

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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