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Opalescent Pendant-snail

Leptopoma perlucidum

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 Australia.January 60, February 40, March 43, April 34, May 50, June 26, July 34, August 27, September 38, October 35, November 46, December 24.
Australia457
Queensland457
Thailand13
Phangnga Province8
Philippines4
Indonesia4
Vietnam4
Central Visayas4
Đồng Nai4
Krabi Province2

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
Orderapple snails, river snails, and allies · Architaenioglossa
FamilyCyclophoridae
GenusLeptopoma

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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