Smaragdia souverbiana

Smaragdia souverbiana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae.[1]

Smaragdia souverbiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Neritimorpha
clade Cycloneritimorpha
Superfamily:
Neritoidea
Family:
Neritidae
Genus:
Smaragdia
Species:
S. souverbiana
Binomial name
Smaragdia souverbiana
(Montrouzier, 1863)
Synonyms[1]
  • Neritina hellvillensis Crosse, 1881
  • Neritina pulcherrima Angas, 1871
  • Neritina souverbieana Montrouzier, 1863

Description

Smaragdia souverbiana is a small (<2mm aperture) seagrass associated Nerite. Its shell is sand to green in colour, with distinctive thin black bands with embedded clear diamonds across the whorls. It is commonly found in seagrasses, where it is believed to feed directly on seagrass cells (rather than algae epiphyte like many other seagrass associated gastropods). Feces examined from specimens collected from the intertidal zone contained both seagrass and epiphyte material.[2]

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar and the Aldabra Atoll, and in the Mediterranean Sea. It is also widely distributed throughout the Indo-Pacific, with records of its collection along the east (as far south as southern New South Wales) and west coasts for Australia, through Indonesia and Malaysia to the Philippines and New Caledonia.[1]

References
  1. Smaragdia souverbiana (Montrouzier, 1863). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 February 2011.
  2. Rossini, Renée Anne; Rueda, José Luis; Tibbetts, Ian Rowland (1 May 2014). "Feeding ecology of the seagrass-grazing nerite Smaragdia souverbiana (Montrouzier, 1863) in subtropical seagrass beds of eastern Australia". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 80 (2): 139–147. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyu003. ISSN 0260-1230.
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
  • Taylor, J.D. (1973). Provisional list of the mollusca of Aldabra Atoll
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
  • Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Annu. Rev. 43: 419-453


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