Nerita plicata

Nerita plicata
Nerita plicata
Behind the small littorinid snail is the larger Nerita plicata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neritimorpha
clade Cycloneritimorpha
Superfamily: Neritoidea
Family: Neritidae
Subfamily: Neritinae
Genus: Nerita
Species: N. plicata
Binomial name
Nerita plicata
Linnaeus, 1758

Nerita plicata is a species of tropical sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites. This species is found throughout the Indo-West Pacific.

Habitat

This species lives high up in the intertidal zone, on rocks.

A cluster of Nerita plicata at low tide at Turtle Island, Fiji.

References

  • Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae, 10th ed., vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentii Salvii: Holmiae [Stockholm, Sweden].


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