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Vitta virginea, the virgin nerite, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae. [3] Distribution
Neritina (common name: nerite snails), is a genus of small aquatic snails with an operculum in the family Neritidae, the nerites. [2] They are as well marine, as brackish water, and sometimes freshwater gastropod mollusks. Neritina is the type genus of the tribe Neritinini. [3]
Neritidae, common name the nerites, is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized saltwater and freshwater snails which have a gill and a distinctive operculum. [2] The family Neritidae includes marine genera such as Nerita, marine and freshwater genera such as Neritina, and freshwater and brackish water genera such as Theodoxus.
Photos show a Mt. Devica crystal snail shell from several angles. The delicate spiral shell almost looks like plastic. Like other Vitrea snails, the new species has both male and female genitalia ...
Vittina natalensis, commonly known as spotted nerite or zebra nerite, [2] [3] is a species of small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites. [4] It returns to brackish waters to reproduce.
Shells of the freshwater snail Theodoxus danubialis Shells of the land snail species Helicina rostrata Titiscania, a shellless neritimorph. Despite their relatively low diversity, with only around 2,000 species, neritomorphs have achieved a remarkable diversity of forms, resembling a smaller-scale version of the diversity achieved by Gastropoda as a whole. [3]
Nerita is a genus of medium-sized to small sea snails with a gill and an operculum, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Neritinae of the family Neritidae, the nerites. [ 1 ] This is the type genus of the family Neritidae.
Zebra nerite may refer to several species of nerite snails in the aquarium trade with striped shells, including: Vittina natalensis, also known as spotted nerite, native to the coastal plain of East Africa; Vittina waigiensis, also known as the red racer nerites or gold racer nerites, native to the Philippines and parts of Indonesia