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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Neritimorpha |
| Order: | Cycloneritida |
| Family: | Neritidae |
| Genus: | Vitta |
| Species: | V. clenchi |
| Binomial name | |
| Vitta clenchi (Russell, 1940) | |
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Vitta clenchi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae. [1]
The snail is found in the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico.
The shells are smooth and neritiform with a dark base, heavily speckled with a lighter color. [2] They live in brackish or fresh water, primarily being found in the estuaries of its region. The species is gonochoric and are broadcast spawners. [3]
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.
Vitta cristata is a species of small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.
Neritina, is a genus of small aquatic snails with an operculum in the family Neritidae, the nerites. They are as well marine, as brackish water, and sometimes freshwater gastropod mollusks
Vitta rubricata is a species of small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.
Vitta usnea is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.
Nereina punctulata is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.
Neritona granosa is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.
Vittina gagates is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae.
Vitta glabrata is a species of brackish water snail, a gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae.
Vitta meleagris is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae.
Vitta piratica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae.
Vitta virginea, the virgin nerite, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae.
Neritodryas is a genus of freshwater snails, ; they are gastropod mollusks in the family Neritidae, the nerites.
Vitta zebra, commonly known as the zebra nerite, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.
Clithon corona is a species of brackish water and freshwater snail with an operculum, a nerite. It is native to the Western Pacific, from the Philippines to Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Samoa, Taiwan, and the Okinawa and Ryukyu Islands of Japan.
Neritina asperulata is a species of a marine and freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.
Neritona juttingae, also known as the King Koopa Nerite Snail, is a species of a freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae.
Vittina turrita is a species of aquatic snail, a gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae.
Vitta is a genus of brackish water and freshwater snails, an aquatic gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Neritininae of the family Neritidae, the nerites.