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Amazon Molly

Poecilia formosa

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

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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.

United States	1,375
Texas	1,375

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

AquaticLives primarily in waterFrom its classification

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Chordates · Chordata
Class	Ray-finned Fishes · Actinopterygii
Order	Rivulines, Killifishes, and Livebearers · Cyprinodontiformes
Family	Guppies, Mollies, Platys, and Swordtails · Poeciliidae
Genus	Mollies · Poecilia

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 Amazon Molly 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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