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Lipped Periwinkle

Monodonta labio

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) rattyexplores, 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.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

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 China.January 8, February 8, March 7, April 31, May 9, June 10, July 7, August 4, September 6, October 6, November 6, December 6.
China108
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region87
Australia28
Queensland16
Thailand14
Taiwan11
Taiwan Province9
Western Australia7
Malaysia6
Northern Territory5

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
OrderTrochida
FamilyTop Snails · Trochidae
GenusMonodonta

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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