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| Five views of a shell of Smaragdia viridis | |
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Smaragdia viridis. common name the "emerald nerite" is a species of small, green sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites. [2]
The distribution of Smaragdia viridis is disjunct, consisting of the Mediterranean Sea and the Caribbean Sea. [3]
The shell is oval, depressed, light green with a yellowish hue, smooth and shiny. The shell often has interrupted fine bands or lines in white and/or purple. The columellar region of the shell is greenish white, broad, convex, margin curved and with fine teeth. The maximum length of the shell is 7.5 mm. [3] The maximum recorded shell length is 8 mm. [4]
The visible soft parts of the animal are the same shade of green as the shell.
Smaragdia viridis is a marine littoral species. [3] Minimum recorded depth is 0 m. [4] Maximum recorded depth is 20 m. [4] It is documented to feed directly on seagrasses, rather than on their algae epiphytes, as is the case with many other seagrass-associated snails. The species it feeds on are different in the two different areas of its distribution. In the Mediterranean the species has been recorded feeding on Posidonia oceanica , Zostera marina and Cymodocea nodosa [5] [6] whereas in the Caribbean it consumes Thalassia testudinum , Halodule wrightii and Syringodium filiforme . [7]
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