Skip to content

Molluscs › Leaf Snails

Silky Snail

Ashfordia granulata

152 observations in the source records

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

24 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.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

What the records say

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 130, February 96, March 150, April 236, May 340, June 371, July 397, August 341, September 251, October 187, November 102, December 80.
United States2,680
Alaska2,680
United Kingdom60
England49
Spain26
Principado de Asturias21
France20
Bretagne20
Wales11
Galicia4

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
OrderCommon Land Snails and Slugs · Stylommatophora
FamilyLeaf Snails · Hygromiidae
GenusAshfordia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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