Neritina virginea

Neritina virginea
Neritina virginea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neritimorpha
clade Cycloneritimorpha
Superfamily: Neritoidea
Family: Neritidae
Genus: Neritina
Species: N. virginea
Binomial name
Neritina virginea
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Neritina virginea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae.[1]

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Description

Distribution

This species occurs in the brackish waters on the West Indian island of Dominica.[2]

References

  1. ^ Neritina virginea (Linnaeus, 1758).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=419512 on 5 May 2010.
  2. ^ (German) Starmühlner F. von (1988). "Ergebnisse der Österreichisch-Französischen Hydrobiologischen Mission 1979 nach Guadeloupe, Dominica und Martinique (Kleine Antillen). Teil II: Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Süß- und Brackwassermollusken von Guadeloupe, Dominica und Martinique". Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien Serie B, 90: 221-340. PDF.

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