Neritodryas

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

Neritodryas
Temporal range: Early Eocene[1]-Recent
Two shells of Neritodryas cornea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Neritimorpha
Superfamily:
Neritoidea
Family:
Neritidae
Tribe:
Theodoxini
Genus:
Neritodryas

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 Neritodryas[1][3]
  • Neritodryas dubia (Gmelin, 1791)[1][4]
  • † Neritodryas dutemplei (Deshayes, 1864) - synonym: Nerita dutemplei[1]
  • † Neritodryas globosa (J. de C. Sowerby, 1823) - synonym: Nerita globosa[1]
  • † Neritodryas guillioui Symonds & Pacaud, 2010[1]
  • Neritodryas javanica Eichhorst, 2016[5]
  • Neritodryas subsulcata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1836)[1]

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. "Genus summary for Neritodryas". AnimalBase, accessed 12 December 2017.
  4. 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
  5. 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
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