Neritilia
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| Genus: | Neritilia von Martens, 1879[1]
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Neritilia is a genus of freshwater snails which live near the sea coast in submarine caves.[2] They have an operculum, and are aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Neritiliidae.[3]
Species
Species within the genus Neritilia include:
- Neritilia bisinuata [citation needed]
- Neritilia cavernicola Kano & Kase, 2004
- Neritilia consimilis Martens, 1897[2]
- Neritilia hawaiiensis Kay, 1979 - anchialine pool snail
- Neritilia littoralis Kano, Kase & Kubo, 2003
- Neritilia manoeli (Dohrn, 1866)[2]
- Neritilia margaritae Pérez-Dionis, Espinosa & Ortea, 2010
- Neritilia mimotoi Kano, Sasaki & Ishikawa, 2001
- Neritilia panamensis Morrison, 1946
- Neritilia pusilla (C.B. Adams, 1850)
- Neritilia rubida (Pease, 1865) - type species[2]
- Neritilia succinea (Récluz, 1841)
- Neritilia vulgaris Kano & Kase, 2003
- Species brought into synonymy
- Neritilia traceyi Ladd, 1965 is a synonym of Laddia traceyi (Ladd, 1965)
References
- ^ Martens (1879). In: Martini & Chemnitz (1879). Syst. Conch.-Cab. 2(10): 19.
- ^ a b c d Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2010). Neritilia Martens, 1875. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=390982 on 2011-03-16
Further reading
- Kano Y. & Kase T. (2008). "Diversity and distributions of the submarine-cave Neritiliidae in the Indo-Pacific (Gastropoda: Neritimorpha)". Organisms Diversity & Evolution 8(1): 22-43. doi:10.1016/j.ode.2006.09.003