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East Asian Lined Shrimp

Lysmata vittata

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) javiercc, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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 Virginia.January 2, February 2, March 2, April 4, May 5, June 2, July 2, August 2, September 2, October 2, November 2, December 2.
United States45
Virginia28
New York5
Connecticut4
China4
Maryland3
Delaware2
New Jersey2
Zhejiang Province2
Rhode Island1

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
FamilyLysmatidae
GenusLysmata

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise East Asian Lined Shrimp with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.