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Pacific Sideband

Monadenia fidelis

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28 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Oregon.January 237, February 217, March 258, April 621, May 926, June 567, July 269, August 240, September 249, October 227, November 197, December 218.
United States7,518
Oregon4,874
British Columbia4,015
Washington3,496
Canada3,054
California500
Nevada5
Massachusetts2
Idaho2
Minnesota1

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
OrderCommon Land Snails and Slugs · Stylommatophora
FamilyXanthonychidae
GenusSidebands · Monadenia

Sources

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

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