Biology:Neritona

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Short description: Genus of gastropods

Neritona
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Superfamily: Neritoidea
Family: Neritidae
Genus: Neritona
Martens, 1869
Type species
Neritina labiosa G. B. Sowerby I, 1836
Synonyms[1]
  • Paludomus (Tanalia) Gray, 1847
  • Serenia Benson, 1856 (unavailable name: established in synonymy)
  • Tanalia Gray, 1847

Neritona (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.[1]

Species

Species in the genus Neritona include:

  • Neritona granosa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)
  • Neritona juttingae (Mienis, 1973)
  • Neritona labiosa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1836)
  • Neritona macgillivrayi (Reeve, 1855)
  • Neritona melanesica Riech, 1935
  • Neritona planissima (Mousson, 1869)
Species brought into synonymy
  • Neritona latissima (Broderip, 1833): synonym of Clypeolum latissimum (Broderip, 1833)
  • Neritona martensi Brusina, 1884: synonym of † Theodoxus martensi (Brusina, 1884)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Neritona Martens, 1869. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=992444 on 2021-09-26

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q61678621 entry