Neripteron

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Neripteron
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Shell of Neripteron auriculatum . Scale bar is 10 mm.
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Superfamily: Neritoidea
Family: Neritidae
Genus: Neripteron
Lesson, 1831 [1]
Type species
Neritina auriculataLamarck, 1816
Synonyms [2]
  • Clithon (Alinoclithon) H. B. Baker, 1923 [3]
  • Clithon (Neritoclithon)H. B. Baker, 1923
  • Dostia Gray, 1842 [4]
  • Neripteron (Dostia)Gray, 1842· accepted, alternate representation
  • Neripteron (Neripteron)Lesson, 1831· accepted, alternate representation
  • Neripteron (Pseudonerita)H. B. Baker, 1923· accepted, alternate representation
  • Neritina (Dostia)Gray, 1842
  • Neritina (Neripteron)Lesson, 1831
  • Neritopteron P. Fischer, 1885 [5] (unjustified emendation of Neripteron)
  • PseudoneritaH. B. Baker, 1923

Neripteron is a genus of brackish water and freshwater snails, an aquatic gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Neritininae of the family Neritidae, the nerites. [6]

Neripteron auriculatum is the type species of the genus Neripteron. [2]

Species

Species within the genus Neripteron include:

Species brought into synonymy

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<i>Clithon</i> Genus of gastropods

Clithon is a genus of freshwater snails or brackish snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

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<i>Chicoreus</i> Genus of gastropods

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<i>Pyramidella</i> Genus of molluscs

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<i>Sinum</i> Genus of gastropods

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<i>Clithon faba</i> Species of gastropod

Clithon faba is a species of brackish water snail with an operculum, a nerite. It is an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

<i>Amathina</i> Genus of gastropods

Amathina is a genus of small sea snails, marine heterobranch gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Amathinidae.

<i>Neritodryas</i> Genus of gastropods

Neritodryas is a genus of freshwater snails, ; they are gastropod mollusks in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

<i>Neripteron cornucopia</i> Species of gastropod

Neripteron cornucopia is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

<i>Neripteron violaceum</i> Species of gastropod

Neripteron violaceum is a species of brackish water snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

<i>Neripteron auriculatum</i> Species of gastropod

Neripteron auriculatum is a species of brackish water and freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

<i>Vittina</i> Genus of gastropods

Vittina is a genus of brackish water and freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Neritininae of the family Neritidae, the nerites.

<i>Clypeolum</i> (gastropod) Genus of gastropods

Clypeolum is a genus of freshwater snails or brackish snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

Nereina is a genus of brackish water and freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Neritininae of the family Neritidae, the nerites.

References

  1. Lesson R. (1831). In: Duperry, Voy. "Coquille" (Zool.), 2(1): page 384.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Bouchet, P. (2016). Neripteron Lesson, 1831. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818409 on 2017-12-07
  3. Baker H. B. (1923). Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia 75: 117, 134, 159.
  4. Gray (1840). Syn. Cont. Brit. Mus., ed. 42, 147 [n.n.]; 1842, Syn. Brit. Mus., ed. 44, 58.
  5. Fischer P. (1885). Man. Conch., 802.
  6. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Neripteron Lesson, 1831. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818409 on 2021-09-22