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Coffee Bean Trivia

Pseudopusula californiana

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) alanarama3, 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 California.January 48, February 42, March 43, April 54, May 52, June 38, July 33, August 33, September 42, October 43, November 56, December 43.
United States533
California528
Nevada5
Mexico1
Sonora1

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
FamilyBean cowries · Triviidae
GenusPseudopusula

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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