Pictoneritina Iredale, 1936

Symonds, Malcolm Francis & Pacaud, Jean-Michel, 2010, New species of Neritidae (Neritimorpha) from the Ypresian and Bartonian of the Paris and Basse-Loire Basins, France, Zootaxa 2606, pp. 55-68 : 59

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.197721

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6209659

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scientific name

Pictoneritina Iredale, 1936
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Subgenus Pictoneritina Iredale, 1936

Type species. By original designation, Neritina oualaniensis Lesson, 1831 .

Recent, in estuaries and brackish lagoons, Indo-Pacific.

Diagnosis. Shell small, 3 to 15 mm in height, smooth; septum weekly arched with one large, several small teeth.

Remarks. In the absence of a detailed description by Iredale (1936) the above diagnosis has been based on that given by Keen (1960). In the type species, the large tooth is about a third of the distance from the apical end of the septum with up to 5 small teeth abapical to it. The shell is glossy and the colour patterns are very variable.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

SubClass

Neritimorpha

Order

Cycloneritimorpha

Family

Neritidae

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