Vitta (gastropod) explained

Vitta is a genus of brackish water and freshwater snails, an aquatic gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Neritininae of the family Neritidae, the nerites.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Vitta include:

• Vitta adansoniana (Récluz, 1841)
• Vitta clenchi (Russell, 1940)
• Vitta consobrina Eichhorst, 2016
• Vitta cristata (Morelet, 1864)
• †Vitta duchasteli (Deshayes, 1832)
• Vitta glabrata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849)
• Vitta kuramoensis (Yoloye & Adegoke, 1977)
• Vitta luteofasciata (K. Miller, 1879)
• Vitta meleagris (Lamarck, 1822)
• Vitta moquiniana (Récluz, 1850)
• †Vitta pachii (Handmann, 1889)
• Vitta perottetiana (Récluz, 1841)
• †Vitta picta (Férussac, 1823)
• Vitta piratica (Russell, 1940)
• Vitta rubricata (Morelet, 1858)
• †Vitta rumeliana Harzhauser, Mandic, Büyükmeriç, Neubauer, Kadolsky & Landau, 2016
• †Vitta schlickumi (Kowalke & Reichenbacher, 2005)
• †Vitta sparsilineata (Dall, 1913)
• Vitta usnea (Röding, 1798)
• Vitta virginea (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Vitta zebra (Bruguière, 1792)

References

• Harzhauser, M., Kowalke, T. (2001). Early Miocene brackish-water Mollusca from the Eastern Mediterranean and from the Central Paratethys - a faunistic and ecological comparison by selected faunas. Journal of the Czech Geological Survey. 46 (3-4), 353–374.page(s): 355-356
• Eichhorst T.E. (2016). Neritidae of the world. Volume 2. Harxheim: Conchbooks. Pp. 696–1366.

External links

• Mörch, O. A. L. (1852-1853). Catalogus conchyliorum quae reliquit D. Alphonso d'Aguirra & Gadea Comes de Yoldi, Regis Daniae Cubiculariorum Princeps, Ordinis Dannebrogici in Prima Classe & Ordinis Caroli Tertii Eques. Fasc. 1, Cephalophora, 170 pp. (1852); Fasc. 2, Acephala, Annulata, Cirripedia, Echinodermata, 74 (+2) pp. (1853). Hafniae (Copenhagen): L. Klein

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Vitta Mörch, 1852. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1348334 on 2021-09-26