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hairy sea-squirt

Ascidiella scabra

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) xavi24, 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.

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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 Alaska.January 214, February 158, March 248, April 389, May 562, June 612, July 655, August 564, September 414, October 309, November 169, December 132.
United States4,425
Alaska4,425
United Kingdom6
France4
Occitanie4
Northern Ireland3
England2
Netherlands2
Zeeland2
Scotland1

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

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumChordates · Chordata
ClassSea Squirts · Ascidiacea
OrderPhlebobranchia
FamilyAscidiidae
GenusAscidiella

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise hairy sea-squirt with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.