''Neritodryas'' is a
genus
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of
freshwater snail
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s, (some of which are amphibious and terrestrial living on trees and bushes);
they are
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
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s in the family
Neritidae
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.
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Neritininae Poey, 1852. Accessed through: ...
, the nerites.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Neritodryas von Martens, 1869. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818410 on 2021-09-28]
The length of the shell is up to 40 mm.
Species
Species within the genus ''Neritodryas'' include:
* ''
Neritodryas chimmoi'' (
Reeve, 1856)
* ''
Neritodryas cornea''
(Linnaeus, 1758) - type species of the genus ''Neritodryas''
* ''
Neritodryas dubia''
(Gmelin, 1791)
* † ''
Neritodryas dutemplei''
(Deshayes, 1864) - synonym: ''Nerita dutemplei''
* † ''
Neritodryas globosa''
(J. de C. Sowerby, 1823) - synonym: ''Nerita globosa''
* † ''
Neritodryas guillioui''
Symonds & Pacaud, 2010[Symonds M. F. & Pacaud J.-M. (2010). "New species of Neritidae (Neritimorpha) from the Ypresian and Bartonian of the Paris and Basse-Loire Basins, France". ''Zootaxa'' 2606: 55-68.]
* ''
Neritodryas javanica''
Eichhorst, 2016[Bouchet, P. (2017). ''Neritodryas javanica'' Eichhorst, 2016. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=933274 on 2017-12-12]
* † ''
Neritodryas laubrierei''
(Cossmann, 1888)
* ''
Neritodryas notabilis''
Riech, 1935
* ''
Neritodryas simplex''
Schepman, 1919
* ''
Neritodryas subsulcata''
(G. B. Sowerby I, 1836)
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
Martens, E. von. (1869). Ü''ber die Deckel der Schneckengattungen Neritina, Nerita, und Navicella''. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freude zu Berlin. 1869: 21-23Cowie R.H. & Smith B.D. (2000). Arboreal neritidae. Veliger. 43(1): 98-102
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Neritidae