Nerita
Genus of gastropods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Nerita | |
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A live Nerita tessellata on a rock in Guadeloupe | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Neritimorpha |
Order: | Cycloneritida |
Superfamily: | Neritoidea |
Family: | Neritidae |
Subfamily: | Neritinae |
Genus: | Nerita Linnaeus, 1758 |
Type species | |
Nerita peloronta Linnaeus, 1758 | |
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This is the type genus of the family Neritidae.