Neritilia
Encyclopedia
Neritilia is a genus
of freshwater snail
s living near the sea coast. They have an operculum
, and are aquatic
gastropod mollusks in the family Neritiliidae
.
Species brought into synonymy :
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of freshwater snail
Freshwater snail
A freshwater snail is one kind of freshwater mollusc, the other kind being freshwater clams and mussels, i.e. freshwater bivalves. Specifically a freshwater snail is a gastropod that lives in a watery non-marine habitat. The majority of freshwater gastropods have a shell, with very few exceptions....
s living near the sea coast. They have an operculum
Operculum (gastropod)
The operculum, meaning little lid, is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure which exists in many groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails...
, and are aquatic
Aquatic animal
An aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in water for most or all of its life. It may breathe air or extract its oxygen from that dissolved in water through specialised organs called gills, or directly through its skin. Natural environments and the animals that...
gastropod mollusks in the family Neritiliidae
Neritiliidae
Neritiliidae is a family of submarine cave snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the clade Cycloneritimorpha...
.
Species
Species within the genus Neritilia include:- Neritilia bisinuata
- Neritilia cavernicolaNeritilia cavernicolaNeritilia cavernicola is a species of submarine cave snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritiliidae....
Kano & Kase, 2004 - Neritilia consimilis Martens, 1897
- Neritilia hawaiiensis Kay, 1979 - anchialine pool snailAnchialine pool snailThe anchialine pool snail, scientific name Neritilia hawaiiensis, is a species living in brackish estuaries and in anchialine pools...
- Neritilia littoralisNeritilia littoralisNeritilia littoralis is a species of submarine cave snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritiliidae....
Kano, Kase & Kubo, 2003 - Neritilia manoeli (Dohrn, 1866)
- Neritilia margaritae Pérez-Dionis, Espinosa & Ortea, 2010
- Neritilia mimotoiNeritilia mimotoiNeritilia mimotoi is a species of submarine cave snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritiliidae....
Kano, Sasaki & Ishikawa, 2001 - Neritilia panamensis Morrison, 1946
- Neritilia pusilla (C.B. Adams, 1850)
- Neritilia rubida (Pease, 1865) - type species
- Neritilia succineaNeritilia succineaNeritilia succinea is a species of submarine cave snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritiliidae.-Distribution:This species fas found on the riverbank on the West Indian island of Dominica....
(Récluz, 1841) - Neritilia vulgarisNeritilia vulgarisNeritilia vulgaris is a species of submarine cave snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritiliidae....
Kano & Kase, 2003
Species brought into synonymy :
- Neritilia traceyi Ladd, 1965 is a synonym of Laddia traceyi (Ladd, 1965)
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