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Variable Worm Snail

Thylacodes variabilis

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) tidepoollover, 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 15, February 12, March 15, April 13, May 7, June 7, July 10, August 7, September 8, October 10, November 10, December 14.
Hawaii425
United States125

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
FamilyWorm Snails · Vermetidae
GenusThylacodes

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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