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Eye-maggot

Lernaeenicus sprattae

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

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4 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

European SpratSprattus sprattus

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Traits

Physical

ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Arthropods · Arthropoda
Class	Barnacles and Copepods · Hexanauplia
Order	Siphon-mouth Copepods · Siphonostomatoida
Family	Pennellidae
Genus	Lernaeenicus

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

Remember the name next time.

Practise Eye-maggot 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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