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Carpenter Prawn

Palaemon serrifer

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) light_hanbom, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

21 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.

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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 Japan.January 0, February 0, March 0, April 1, May 1, June 0, July 0, August 0, September 0, October 0, November 2, December 0.
Japan4
China3
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region3
Kyoto Prefecture2
Wakayama Prefecture1
Fukuoka Prefecture1

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

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassMalacostracans · Malacostraca
OrderDecapods · Decapoda
Familypalaemonid shrimps · Palaemonidae
GenusGlass Shrimps · Palaemon

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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