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Black Nerite

Nerita melanotragus

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) jkelvinf, 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 Australia.January 93, February 83, March 130, April 105, May 91, June 84, July 68, August 66, September 73, October 122, November 86, December 115.
Australia1,116
New South Wales1,000
New Zealand322
Auckland Region118
Northland Region101
Queensland54
Waikato Region44
Bay of Plenty Region42
Other Territories33
Victoria18

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
OrderCycloneritida
FamilyNerite Snails · Neritidae
GenusNerita

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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