Neritilia

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]

Neritilia
Neritilia rubida shells
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Neritimorpha
clade Cycloneritimorpha
Superfamily:
Helicinoidea
Family:
Neritiliidae
Genus:
Neritilia

Synonyms
  • Calceolata Iredale, 1918 (Replacement name for Calceolina A. Adams, 1863, non Rafinesque, 1815)
  • Calceolina A. Adams, 1863 (Invalid: junior homonym of Calceolina Rafinesque, 1815; Calceolata is a replacement name)

Species

Species within the genus Neritilia include:


Species brought into synonymy

  • Neritilia traceyi Ladd, 1965 accepted as Laddia traceyi (Ladd, 1965)
  • Neritilia consimilis (E. von Martens, 1879) accepted as Neritilia rubida (Pease, 1865)

References
  1. Martens (1879). In: Martini & Chemnitz (1879). Syst. Conch.-Cab. 2(10): 19.
  2. Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
  3. 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
  4. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Neritilia Martens, 1875". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2019-03-05.

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


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