Clithon faba

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

Clithon faba
Scientific classification
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Neritinae
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Theodoxini
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C. faba
Binomial name
Clithon faba
Sowerby I, 1836
Synonyms

Clithon sowerbianus Récluz, 1842

Distribution

This species occurs in Japan: Honshū and Kyūshū,[2] Vietnam.[3]

Clithon faba shell.

References

  1. Köhler F. (2011). Clithon faba. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T189416A8728700. Downloaded on 07 April 2016.
  2. (in Japanese) "カノコガイ" Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine. Japanese Red Data Book. accessed 26 August 2010.
  3. Zvonareva S., Kantor Yu., Li X. & Britayev T. (2015). "Long-term monitoring of Gastropoda (Mollusca) fauna in planted mangroves in central Vietnam". Zoological Studies 54: 39. doi:10.1186/s40555-015-0120-0.


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