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Least Lithobius

Lithobius microps

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

24 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 Alaska.January 139, February 102, March 161, April 253, May 364, June 397, July 425, August 365, September 268, October 200, November 109, December 86.
United States2,895
Alaska2,869
Canada85
United Kingdom71
England68
Ontario46
France34
New York20
Quebec15
Newfoundland and Labrador12

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassCentipedes · Chilopoda
OrderStone Centipedes · Lithobiomorpha
FamilyLithobiidae
GenusTypical Stone Centipedes · Lithobius

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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