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Depressed Slippersnail

Crepidula depressa

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) slapcin, 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 Texas.January 4, February 3, March 4, April 7, May 4, June 2, July 2, August 2, September 2, October 3, November 3, December 3.
United States195
Texas40
Alabama5
Georgia2
Mississippi1
South Carolina1

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