Neritina granosa

Neritina granosa
Neritina granosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neritimorpha

clade Cycloneritimorpha
Superfamily: Neritoidea
Family: Neritidae
Subfamily: Neritininae
Tribe: Neritinini
Genus: Neritina
Species: N. granosa
Binomial name
Neritina granosa
Sowerby

Neritina granosa is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

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Distribution

This species of nerite is endemic in Hawaii: Maui.[1]

Ecology

Neritina granosa lives in streams. This species has marine larvae that migrate into and up streams after a period of oceanic dispersal. Most likely, the planktonic larvae of this neritid snail disperse across the oceanic expanses that separate the main Hawaiian Islands, and thus it can colonize streams on any or all of these islands.[2]

References

This article incorporates public domain text (a public domain work of the United States Government) from reference [2].

  1. ^ Hau S. (2007). "Hïhïwai (Neritina granosa Sowerby) Recruitment in ‘Ïao and Honomanü Streams on the Island of Maui, Hawai‘i". In: Evenhuis N. L. & Fitzsimons J. M. (eds.). Biology of Hawaiian Streams and Estuaries. Bishop Museum Bulletin in Cultural and Environmental Studies 3: 171–181. PDF
  2. ^ a b U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (18 September 2006) "Recovery plan for the Newcomb's snail (Erinna newcombi)". U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland, Oregon. 52 pp.

Further reading

  • Ford J. I. (1979). "Biology of a Hawaiian fluvial gastropod Neritina granosa Sowerby (Prosobranchia: Neritidae)". M.S. Thesis, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii: 94 pp.
  • Hau S., Way C. M. & Burky A. J. (1992). "Life cycle of the endemic limpet Neritina granosa (Sowerby), in Palauhulu Stream, Maui. 43rd Annual Meeting of American Institute of Biological Sciences. Ecological Society of America, 9–13 August, Honolulu, Hawaii (abstract).
  • Hodges M. H.-D. (July 1992). "Population biology and genetics of the endemic Hawaiian stream gastropod Neritina granosa (Prosobranchia: Neritidae): implications for conservation". Honors Thesis, Wildlife Biology Program University of Montana, Missoula, Montana.
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