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Velvet Dorid

Jorunna tomentosa

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) cllrdaveb, 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 Alaska.January 56, February 42, March 65, April 102, May 148, June 161, July 172, August 148, September 109, October 81, November 44, December 35.
United States1,162
Alaska1,162
Norway235
Viken234
United Kingdom90
England75
Netherlands62
Zeeland62
France35
Occitanie22

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
OrderNudibranchs · Nudibranchia
FamilyDiscodorididae
GenusJorunna

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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