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Rough Sea Squirt

Styela canopus

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) etienne-barz, 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 Hawaii.January 5, February 4, March 5, April 3, May 2, June 2, July 3, August 2, September 3, October 3, November 3, December 4.
United States122
Hawaii39
Virginia36
Massachusetts9
Australia8
France6
Victoria5
North Carolina4
South Australia3
Nouvelle-Aquitaine3

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

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumChordates · Chordata
ClassSea Squirts · Ascidiacea
OrderStolidobranchia
FamilyStyelidae
GenusLumpy Sea Mats · Styela

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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