Clithon

Clithon
Clithon retropictus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neritimorpha
clade Cycloneritimorpha
Superfamily: Neritoidea
Family: Neritidae
Subfamily: Neritinae
Tribe: Theodoxini
Genus: Clithon

Clithon is a genus of freshwater snails[2] or brackish snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

Distribution

Distribution of the genus Clithon includes the Comoro Islands (3 species),[2] Madagascar (3 or more species) and the Mascarene Islands.[2]

Description

Some species, such as Clithon longispina have spines on its shell.[2]

Species

Clithon diadema shell

Species in the genus Clithon include:

  • Clithon angulosum (Récluz, 1843)[3]
  • Clithon aspersum (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849)[3]
  • Clithon avellana (Récluz, 1842)[3]
  • Clithon bicolor (Récluz, 1843)[3]
  • † Clithon bristowi (Wenz, 1929)[3]
  • Clithon castanea (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1848)[3]
  • Clithon celatum (Récluz, 1846)[3]
  • Clithon chlorostoma (Sowerby I, 1833)[3]
  • Clithon circumvolutum (Récluz, 1843)[3]
  • Clithon corona (Linnaeus, 1758)[3]
  • Clithon coronatum (Leach, 1815)[3]
  • Clithon cryptum Eichhorst, 2016[3]
  • Clithon cuvieriana
  • Clithon diadema (Récluz, 1841)[3]
  • Clithon dispar (Pease, 1868)[3]
  • Clithon dominguense (Lamarck, 1822)[3]
  • Clithon donovani (Récluz, 1843)[3]
  • Clithon dringii (Récluz, 1846)[3]
  • Clithon eudeli (G. B. Sowerby III, 1917)[3]
  • Clithon faba G. B. Sowerby I, 1836[3]
  • Clithon flavovirens (von dem Busch, 1843)[3]
  • Clithon francoisi (Mabille, 1895)[3]
  • Clithon fuliginosum (von dem Busch, 1843)[3]
  • Clithon glabratum (Sowerby II, 1849)[3]
  • Clithon lentiginosum (Reeve, 1855)[4]
  • Clithon longispina (Récluz, 1841)[2]
  • Clithon mertonianum (Récluz, 1843)[3]
  • Clithon michaudi (Récluz, 1841)
  • Clithon oualaniense (Lesson, 1831)
  • Clithon reticulare (G. B. Sowerby I, 1836)[5]
  • Clithon retropictum (von Martens, 1879)
  • Clithon sowerbianum (Récluz, 1843)
  • Clithon spinosum (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825) - synonyms: Clithon spinosus, Clithon spinosa[6][7]

Ecology

It lives in rapid streams.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Montfort (1810). Conch. Syst. 2: 326.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2016). Clithon Montfort, 1810. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737507 on 2017-11-29
  4. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2016). Clithon lentiginosum. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=873242 on 2017-11-29
  5. ↑ MolluscaBase (2018). Clithon reticulare (G. B. Sowerby I, 1836). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=873608 on 2018-09-26
  6. ↑ Myers M. J., Meyer C. P. & Resh V. H. (2000). "Neritid and thiarid gastropods from French Polynesian streams: how reproduction (sexual, parthenogenetic) and dispersal (active, passive) affect population structure". Freshwater Biology 44: 535–545. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2427.2000.00599.x.
  7. ↑ Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2016). Clithon spinosum (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737522 on 2016-09-06


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