Biology:Vitta (gastropod)

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Vitta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Neritimorpha
Order:	Cycloneritida
Superfamily:	Neritoidea
Family:	Neritidae
Genus:	Vitta Mörch, 1852
Synonyms
Agapilia Harzhauser & Kowalke, 2001 † Clithon (Vittoclithon) H. B. Baker, 1923 Neritella (Vitta) Mörch, 1852 (original rank) Neritina (Vitta) Mörch, 1852 (new combination) Neritina (Vittoclithon) H. B. Baker, 1923· accepted, alternate representation Theodoxus (Vittoclithon) H. B. Baker, 1923 Vitta (Vitta) Mörch, 1852· accepted, alternate representation Vitta (Vittoclithon) H. B. Baker, 1923· accepted, alternate representation

Vitta is a genus of brackish water and freshwater snails, an aquatic gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Neritininae of the family Neritidae, the nerites.

Species

Species within the genus Vitta include:

• Vitta adansoniana (Récluz, 1841)
• Vitta clenchi (Russell, 1940)
• Vitta consobrina Eichhorst, 2016
• Vitta cristata (Morelet, 1864)
• †Vitta duchasteli (Deshayes, 1832)
• Vitta glabrata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849)
• Vitta kuramoensis (Yoloye & Adegoke, 1977)
• Vitta luteofasciata (K. Miller, 1879)
• Vitta meleagris (Lamarck, 1822)
• Vitta moquiniana (Récluz, 1850)
• †Vitta pachii (Handmann, 1889)
• Vitta perottetiana (Récluz, 1841)
• †Vitta picta (Férussac, 1823)
• Vitta piratica (Russell, 1940)
• Vitta rubricata (Morelet, 1858)
• †Vitta rumeliana Harzhauser, Mandic, Büyükmeriç, Neubauer, Kadolsky & Landau, 2016
• †Vitta schlickumi (Kowalke & Reichenbacher, 2005)
• †Vitta sparsilineata (Dall, 1913)
• Vitta usnea (Röding, 1798)
• Vitta virginea (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Vitta zebra (Bruguière, 1792)

References

• Harzhauser, M., Kowalke, T. (2001). Early Miocene brackish-water Mollusca from the Eastern Mediterranean and from the Central Paratethys - a faunistic and ecological comparison by selected faunas. Journal of the Czech Geological Survey. 46 (3-4), 353–374.page(s): 355-356
• Eichhorst T.E. (2016). Neritidae of the world. Volume 2. Harxheim: Conchbooks. Pp. 696–1366.

External links

• Mörch, O. A. L. (1852-1853). Catalogus conchyliorum quae reliquit D. Alphonso d'Aguirra & Gadea Comes de Yoldi, Regis Daniae Cubiculariorum Princeps, Ordinis Dannebrogici in Prima Classe & Ordinis Caroli Tertii Eques. Fasc. 1, Cephalophora, 170 pp. (1852); Fasc. 2, Acephala, Annulata, Cirripedia, Echinodermata, 74 (+2) pp. (1853). Hafniae (Copenhagen): L. Klein

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