Neritodryas Explained

Neritodryas is a genus of freshwater snails, (some of which are amphibious and terrestrial living on trees and bushes); they are gastropod molluscs in the family Neritidae, the nerites.^[1]

The length of the shell is up to 40 mm.

Species

Species within the genus Neritodryas include:

• Neritodryas chimmoi (Reeve, 1856)
• Neritodryas cornea (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species of the genus Neritodryas^[2]
• Neritodryas dubia (Gmelin, 1791)^[3]
• † Neritodryas dutemplei (Deshayes, 1864) - synonym: Nerita dutemplei
• † Neritodryas globosa (J. de C. Sowerby, 1823) - synonym: Nerita globosa
• † Neritodryas guillioui Symonds & Pacaud, 2010^[4]
• Neritodryas javanica Eichhorst, 2016^[5]
• † Neritodryas laubrierei (Cossmann, 1888)
• Neritodryas notabilis Riech, 1935
• Neritodryas simplex Schepman, 1919
• Neritodryas subsulcata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1836)^[4]

References

• Brandt, R. A. M. (1974). The non-marine aquatic Mollusca of Thailand. Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 105: i-iv, 1-423.
• Eichhorst T.E. (2016). Neritidae of the world. Volume 2. Harxheim: Conchbooks. pp. 696–1366

External links

• Martens, E. von. (1869). Über die Deckel der Schneckengattungen Neritina, Nerita, und Navicella. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freude zu Berlin. 1869: 21-23
• Cowie R.H. & Smith B.D. (2000). Arboreal neritidae. Veliger. 43(1): 98-102

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Neritodryas von Martens, 1869. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818410 on 2021-09-28
2. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/genus?id=2560 "Genus summary for Neritodryas"
3. Bouchet, P.; Marshall, B. (2017). Neritodryas dubia (Gmelin, 1791). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=850636 on 2017-12-12
4. Symonds M. F. & Pacaud J.-M. (2010). "New species of Neritidae (Neritimorpha) from the Ypresian and Bartonian of the Paris and Basse-Loire Basins, France". Zootaxa 2606: 55-68.
5. Bouchet, P. (2017). Neritodryas javanica Eichhorst, 2016. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=933274 on 2017-12-12