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Midget Crayfish

Faxonius nana

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

15 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 Texas.January 1, February 1, March 2, April 3, May 2, June 1, July 1, August 1, September 1, October 1, November 1, December 1.
United States51
Texas17
Arkansas14
Missouri12
Oklahoma8

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
FamilyCambarid Crayfishes · Cambaridae
GenusFaxonius

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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