Neritodryas cornea

Horny nerite
Two shells of Neritodryas cornea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neritimorpha
Superfamily: Neritoidea
Family: Neritidae
Tribe: Theodoxini
Genus: Neritodryas
Species: N. cornea
Binomial name
Neritodryas cornea
Synonyms[1][2]

Nerita cornea Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)
Neritina amphibia Lesson, 1831
Neritina ampullaria Lesson, 1831

The horny nerite,[3] Neritodryas cornea, is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

Neritodryas cornea is the type species of the genus Neritodryas.[4]

Description

Apertural view of a shell of Neritodryas cornea.
Abapertural view of a shell of Neritodryas cornea.

Human use

It is a part of ornamental pet trade for freshwater aquaria.[5]

References

  1. Bouchet, P.; Marshall, B. (2017). Neritodryas cornea (Linnaeus, 1758). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=850635 on 2017-12-12
  2. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/speciestaxon?id=4760
  3. http://www.gastropods.com/0/Shell_2490.shtml
  4. "Genus summary for Neritodryas". AnimalBase, accessed 12 December 2017.
  5. Ng, T. H., Tan, S. K., Wong, W. H., Meier, R., Chan, S. Y., Tan, H. H., & Yeo, D. C. (2016). "Molluscs for sale: assessment of freshwater gastropods and bivalves in the ornamental pet trade". PLoS ONE 11(8): e0161130. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0161130
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