Clypeolum (gastropod)

Clypeolum is a genus of freshwater snails or brackish snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Neritidae, the nerites. [1]

Clypeolum
Shell of Clypeolum latissimum (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Superfamily: Neritoidea
Family: Neritidae
Genus: Clypeolum
Récluz, 1842
Type species
Neritina latissima
Broderip, 1833
Synonyms
  • Neritina (Alina) Récluz, 1842 (invalid: junior homonym of Alina Risso, 1826)
  • Neritina (Clypeolum) Récluz, 1842 (original rank)

Genera

  • Clypeolum latissimum (Broderip, 1833)
  • Clypeolum owenianum (W. Wood, 1828)
Species brought into synonymy
  • Clypeolum planissimum Mousson, 1869: synonym of Neritona planissima (Mousson, 1869) (basionym)

References

  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Clypeolum Récluz, 1842. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=873719 on 2020-08-24
  • Récluz, C., 1850. Notice sur le genre Nerita et sur le S.-G. Neritina, avec le Catalogue synonymique des Neritines. Journal de Conchyliologie 1: 131-164
  • Fischer-Piette, E., 1950. Listes des types décrits dans le Journal de Conchyliologie et conservés dans la collection de ce journal. Journal de Conchyliologie 90: 8-23
  • Eichhorst T.E. (2016). Neritidae of the world. Volume 1. Harxheim: Conchbooks. 695 pp
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