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Neritidae

Index Neritidae

Neritidae, common name the nerites, is a taxonomic family of small- to medium-sized saltwater and freshwater snails which have a gill and a distinctive operculum. [1]

41 relations: Animal, Arthur William Baden Powell, Bathynerita, Bathynerita naticoidea, Clithon, Common name, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Cycloneritimorpha, Family (biology), Freshwater snail, Gastropod shell, Gastropoda, Gilbert Charles Bourne, Gill, Greek mythology, HarperCollins, Hydrobiologia, Journal of Zoology, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Mollusca, Neripteron, Nerita, Nerita atramentosa, Nerita melanotragus, Nerites (mythology), Neritimorpha, Neritina, Neritodryas, Neritoidea, Operculum (gastropod), Puperita, Septaria (gastropod), Smaragdia, Taxonomy (biology), Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), Theodoxus, Theodoxus danubialis, Theodoxus fluviatilis, Velates, Vittina, Winston Ponder.

Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Arthur William Baden Powell

Arthur William Baden Powell (4 April 1901 – 1 July 1987) was a New Zealand malacologist, naturalist and palaeontologist, a major influence in the study and classification of New Zealand molluscs through much of the 20th century.

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Bathynerita

Bathynerita is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Neritidae.

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Bathynerita naticoidea

Bathynerita naticoidea is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

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Clithon

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

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Common name

In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, trivial name, trivial epithet, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; this kind of name is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is Latinized.

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Constantine Samuel Rafinesque

Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz, as he is known in Europe (October 22, 1783 – September 18, 1840), was a nineteenth-century polymath born near Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire and self-educated in France.

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Cycloneritimorpha

Cycloneritimorpha (nerites and false-limpets) is a clade of land snails, freshwater snails, and sea snails.

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Freshwater snail

Freshwater snails are gastropod mollusks which live in freshwater.

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Gastropod shell

The gastropod shell is part of the body of a gastropod or snail, a kind of mollusc.

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Gastropoda

The gastropods, more commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca, called Gastropoda.

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Gilbert Charles Bourne

Gilbert Charles Bourne FRS (5 July 1861– 9 March 1933) was a British zoologist.

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Gill

A gill is a respiratory organ found in many aquatic organisms that extracts dissolved oxygen from water and excretes carbon dioxide.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.

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Hydrobiologia

Hydrobiologia: The International Journal of Aquatic Sciences is a scientific journal specialising in hydrobiology, including limnology and oceanography, systematics of aquatic organisms and aquatic ecology.

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Journal of Zoology

The Journal of Zoology is a scientific journal concerning zoology, the study of animals.

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Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of evolutionary biology and phylogenetics.

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Mollusca

Mollusca is a large phylum of invertebrate animals whose members are known as molluscs or mollusksThe formerly dominant spelling mollusk is still used in the U.S. — see the reasons given in Gary Rosenberg's.

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Neripteron

Neripteron is a genus of brackish water and freshwater snails, an aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

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Nerita

Nerita is a genus of medium-sized to small sea snails with a gill and an operculum, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

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Nerita atramentosa

Nerita atramentosa, common name the black nerite, is a medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

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Nerita melanotragus

Nerita melanotragus, common name black nerite, is a medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

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Nerites (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Nerites (Νηρίτης) was a minor sea deity, son of Nereus and Doris (apparently their only male offspring) and brother of the fifty Nereids.

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Neritimorpha

Neritimorpha is a taxonomic grouping, an unranked clade of snails, gastropod mollusks.

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Neritina

Neritina (common name: nerite snails), is a genus of small aquatic snails with an operculum, marine, brackish water, and sometimes freshwater gastropod mollusks in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

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Neritodryas

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

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Neritoidea

Neritoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of mostly sea snails, nerites and their allies, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Cycloneritimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

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Operculum (gastropod)

The operculum, meaning little lid, (plural: opercula or operculums) is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure like a trapdoor which exists in many (but not all) groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails.

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Puperita

Puperita is a genus of snails, gastropod mollusks in the family Neritidae.

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Septaria (gastropod)

Septaria is a genus of freshwater and brackish water snails, gastropod mollusks in the family Neritidae.

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Smaragdia

Smaragdia is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

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Taxonomy (biology)

Taxonomy is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics.

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Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)

The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised in 2005 by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is a system for the scientific classification of gastropod mollusks.

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Theodoxus

Theodoxus is a genus of nerites, small water snails with an operculum, some of which live in freshwater, and some in both freshwater and brackish water, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

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Theodoxus danubialis

Theodoxus danubialis is a species of small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

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Theodoxus fluviatilis

Theodoxus fluviatilis, common name the river nerite, is a species of small freshwater and brackish water snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

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Velates

Velates is an extinct genus of marine gastropod mollusks belonging to the family Neritidae.

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Vittina

Vittina is a genusSartori, André F. (2014).

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Winston Ponder

Winston F. Ponder (born 1941) is a noted malacologist from New Zealand who has named and described many marine and freshwater animals, especially micromolluscs.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neritidae

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