Neritina
Neritina (common name: nerite snails), is a genus of small aquatic snails with an operculum, marine, brackish water, and sometimes freshwater gastropod mollusks in the family Neritidae, the nerites.
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| Subfamily: | Neritininae |
| Tribe: | Neritinini |
| Genus: | Neritina Rafinesque, 1815[1] |
Neritina is the type genus of the tribe Neritinini.[2]
Species
Species in the genus Neritina include:[3]
- Neritina adansoniana (Récluz, 1841)[4]
- Neritina afra Sowerby, 1841[4]
- Neritina cariosa (Wood, 1828) = Neritina (Theodoxus) cariosa (Wood, 1828) - synonyms: Theodoxus cariosus (Wood, 1828), Theodoxus cariosa[5]
- Neritina clenchi Russell, 1940
- Neritina cristata Morelet, 1864[4]
- Neritina gagates (Lamarck, 1822)[4]
- Neritina glabrata Sowerby, 1849[4]
- Neritina granosa Sowerby I, 1825
- Neritina juttingae (Mienis, 1973) - hedgehog nerite
- Neritina iris Mousson, 1849
- Neritina kuramoensis Yoloye & Adegoke, 1977[4]
- Neritina manoeli (Dohrn, 1866)
- Neritina mauriciae (Lesson, 1831)
- Neritina meleagris (Lamarck, 1822)
- Neritina natalensis Reeve, 1855[4]
- Neritina oweniana (Wood, 1828)[4]
- Neritina piratica Russell, 1940
- Neritina pulligera (Linnaeus, 1767) - type species[4]
- Neritina punctulata Lamarck, 1816
- Neritina reclivata (Say, 1822) - olive nerite
- Neritina rubricata Morelet, 1858[4]
- Neritina tiassalensis Binder, 1955[4]
- Neritina usnea (Roding, 1798) - olive nerite
- Neritina violacea (Gmelin, 1791)
- Neritina virginea (Linnaeus, 1758) - virgin nerite
- Neritina zebra (Bruguière, 1792)
Species brought into synonymy:
- Neritina consimilis Martens, 1879 is a synonym of Neritilia rubida (Pease, 1865)
- Neritina hellvillensis Crosse, 1881 is a synonym of Smaragdia souverbiana (Montrouzier, 1863)
- Neritina manoeli Dohrn, 1866 is a synonym of Neritilia manoeli (Dohrn, 1866)
- Neritina pulcherrima Angas, 1871 is a synonym of Smaragdia souverbiana (Montrouzier, 1863)
- Neritina pusilla C.B. Adams, 1850 is a synonym of Neritilia pusilla (C.B. Adams, 1850)
- Neritina pygmaea C.B. Adams, 1845 is a synonym of Neritilia succinea (Récluz, 1841)
- Neritina rangiana Récluz, 1841 is a synonym of Smaragdia rangiana (Recluz, 1841)
- Neritina rubida Pease, 1865 is a synonym of Neritilia rubida (Pease, 1865)
- Neritina souverbieana Montrouzier, 1863 is a synonym of Smaragdia souverbiana (Montrouzier, 1863)
References
- Rafinesque C. S. R. (1815). Anal. Nat.: 144. In: Lamarck J.-B. (1816). Ency. Méth. (Tabl. Vers) 3, pl. 455, Liste p. 11.
- Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- Neritina at ITIS.gov accessed 9 April 2009
- Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
- Daniel R. Goodwin. 2006. The Discovery of Neritina (Theodoxus) cariosa (Wood, 1828) on the Island of Maui, Hawaii (Gastropoda: Neritidae). Visaya Net - December 16, 2006, 11 pp.
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- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
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