Neritona

Neritona
Scientific classification
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
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.

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)

External links

• Martens, E. von. (1869). [Über die Deckel der Schneckengattungen Neritina, Nerita, und Navicella. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freude zu Berlin. 1869: 21-23]
• Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219
• Benson, W. H. (1856). Descriptions of three new species of Paludomus from Burmah, and of some forms of Stenothyra (Nematura) from Penang, Mergui, etc. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 2. 17(102): 494-504
• Martens, E. von. (1863-1879). Die Gattung Neritina. In: Küster, H. C.; Kobelt, W., Weinkauff, H. C., Eds. Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Neu herausgegeben und vervollständigt. Zweiten Bandes zehnte Abtheilung. 1-303, pls A, 1-23. Nürnberg: Bauer & Raspe.