Clithon

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Kingdom Animalia Family Neritidae Tribe Theodoxini Phylum Mollusca Rank Genus		Superfamily Neritoidea Subfamily Neritinae Scientific name Clithon Higher classification Neritidae

Similar Neritidae, Neritina, Theodoxus, Neritina natalensis, Clithon retropictus

One of of my zebra thorn clithon diadema snails in the opaeula tank

Clithon is a genus of freshwater snails or brackish snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

Distribution of the genus Clithon includes the Comoro Islands (3 species), Madagascar (3 or more species) and the Mascarene Islands.

Some species, such as Clithon longispina have spines on its shell.

Species in the genus Clithon include:

Clithon corona (Linnaeus, 1758) - synonyms: Clithon brevispina, Clithon angulosus, Clithon angulosa Recluz, 1842

Clithon chlorostoma (Broderip, 1832)

Clithon cuvieriana

Clithon diadema

Clithon faba Sowerby, 1836 - synonym: Clithon sowerbianus Récluz, 1842

Clithon longispina (Récluz, 1841)

Clithon michaudi

Clithon oualaniense (Lesson, 1831)

Clithon retropictus (von Martens, 1879)

Clithon sowerbianum (Récluz, 1843)

Clithon spinosum (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825) - synonyms: Clithon spinosus, Clithon spinosa

It lives in rapid streams.

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