Skip to content
Nature By NameSign inCreate an account

Molluscs › Mud-creeper Snails

Japanese False Cerith

Batillaria attramentaria

3,126 observations in the source records

Learn Japanese False Cerith freeHow it works
Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) sidalcea, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

28 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.

See all photosAdd a photo

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

What the records say

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 British Columbia.January 64, February 59, March 92, April 107, May 166, June 144, July 115, August 102, September 90, October 71, November 57, December 58.
British Columbia1,460
Canada1,125
United States663
Washington414
California249
Japan13
South Korea7
China6
Jeju6
Russia5

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
FamilyMud-creeper Snails · Batillariidae
GenusBatillaria

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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

Create a free accountHow it works