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Northern Shrimp

Pandalus borealis

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

28 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 Quebec.January 220, February 191, March 297, April 707, May 1,303, June 862, July 719, August 661, September 581, October 487, November 284, December 256.
Canada12,961
Quebec6,567
United States6,037
Newfoundland and Labrador5,325
Maine3,681
Alaska1,789
British Columbia570
Massachusetts433
Nova Scotia388
Washington106

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

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassMalacostracans · Malacostraca
OrderDecapods · Decapoda
FamilyPandalid Shrimp · Pandalidae
GenusPandalus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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