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Neritina 
Two live individuals of Neritina natalensis Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Neritimorpha
clade Cycloneritimorpha
Superfamily: Neritoidea Family: Neritidae Subfamily: Neritininae Tribe: Neritinini Genus: Neritina
Rafinesque, 1815[1]Neritina is a genus of small aquatic snails with an operculum, marine, brackish water, and sometimes freshwater gastropod mollusks in the family Neritidae, the nerites.
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
- Neritina kuramoensis Yoloye & Adegoke, 1977[4]
- Neritina manoeli
- 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, 1881is 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 P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst.
- ^ Neritina at ITIS.gov accessed 9 April 2009
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k 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.
External links
- Neritina at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website.
- 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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