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Neritodryas

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

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Neritodryas
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Two shells of Neritodryas cornea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Cycloneritida
Superfamily: Neritoidea
Family: Neritidae
Genus: Neritodryas
Martens, 18692
Type species
Nerita cornea
Linnaeus, 1758

Neritodryas is a genus of freshwater snails, (some of which are amphibious and terrestrial living on trees and bushes);1 they are gastropod molluscs in the family Neritidae, the nerites.3

The length of the shell is up to 40 mm.1

Species

Species within the genus Neritodryas include:

  • Neritodryas chimmoi (Reeve, 1856)1
  • Neritodryas cornea (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species of the genus Neritodryas14
  • Neritodryas dubia (Gmelin, 1791)15
  • † Neritodryas dutemplei (Deshayes, 1864) - synonym: Nerita dutemplei1
  • † Neritodryas globosa (J. de C. Sowerby, 1823) - synonym: Nerita globosa1
  • † Neritodryas guillioui Symonds & Pacaud, 20101
  • Neritodryas javanica Eichhorst, 20166
  • † Neritodryas laubrierei (Cossmann, 1888)
  • Neritodryas notabilis Riech, 1935
  • Neritodryas simplex Schepman, 1919
  • Neritodryas subsulcata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1836)1
References

References

  1. 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.
  2. von Martens E. (1869). "Ueber die Deckel des Schneckengattungen Neritina, Nerita und Navicella". Sitzungs-Berichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1869: 21–23. page 22.
  3. 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
  4. "Genus summary for Neritodryas". AnimalBase, accessed 12 December 2017.
  5. Bouchet, P.; Marshall, B. (2017). Neritodryas dubia (Gmelin, 1791). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=850636 on 2017-12-12
  6. 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
  • 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
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