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Neritilia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Helicinoidea

Scientific name
  
Neritilia

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Neritiliidae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Similar
  
Neritimorpha, Smaragdia, Neritina gagates

Neritilia is a genus of freshwater snails which live near the sea coast in submarine caves. They have an operculum, and are aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Neritiliidae.

Species

Species within the genus Neritilia include:

  • Neritilia bisinuata
  • Neritilia cavernicola Kano & Kase, 2004
  • Neritilia consimilis Martens, 1897
  • Neritilia hawaiiensis Kay, 1979 - anchialine pool snail
  • Neritilia littoralis Kano, Kase & Kubo, 2003
  • Neritilia manoeli (Dohrn, 1866)
  • 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
  • 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

    Neritilia Wikipedia
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