The horny nerite, ''Neritodryas cornea'', is a species of
freshwater snail
Freshwater snails are gastropod mollusks which live in fresh water. There are many different families. They are found throughout the world in various habitats, ranging from ephemeral pools to the largest lakes, and from small seeps and springs ...
, an aquatic
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, the nerites.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Neritodryas cornea (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=850635 on 2021-09-28]
''Neritodryas cornea'' is the
type species of the genus ''Neritodryas''.
"Genus summary for ''Neritodryas''"
AnimalBase, accessed 12 December 2017.
Description
Human use
It is a part of ornamental pet trade for freshwater aquaria.[Ng, T. H., Tan, S. K., Wong, W. H., Meier, R., Chan, S. Y., Tan, H. H., & Yeo, D. C. (2016). "Molluscs for sale: assessment of freshwater gastropods and bivalves in the ornamental pet trade". ''PLoS ONE'' 11(8): e0161130. ]
References
* Brandt, R. A. M. (1974). The non-marine aquatic Mollusca of Thailand. Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 105: i-iv, 1-423
* Eichhorst T.E. (2016). Neritidae of the world. Volume 2. Harxheim: Conchbooks. pp. 696–1366
External links
https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
Lesson, R. P. (1830-1831). Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Zoologie, 2
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Neritidae
Gastropods described in 1758
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus