''Nerita patula'' is a species of

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk in the family Neritidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Nerita patula Récluz, 1841. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818079 on 2021-09-20

Description

Distribution

References

* Vallejo B. jr. 2000. Una nuova specie di Nerita (linnaeus, 1758) dal mare di Sibuyan, Filippine centrali, e note sulla sua ecologia e posizione sistematica. La Conchiglia, 296: 23-27

External links

Gould, A.A. (1847). Descriptions of the following Shells, from the collection of the Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 2: 237-239. Boston

Subba Rao, N. V.; Dey, A. (2000). Catalogue of Marine Molluscs of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, Occasional Paper. 187: 199-294
Neritidae Gastropods described in 1841 {{Neritidae-stub