Vittina Explained

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

Vittina was previously recognized as a subgenus of the genus Neritina.

Distribution

Species of this genus are found estuarine and fluviatile in the Indo-Pacific.

Species

Species in the genus Vittina include:

• Vittina adumbrata (Reeve, 1856)
• Vittina aquatilis (Reeve, 1856)
• Vittina coromandeliana (G. B. Sowerby I, 1836)^[1]
• Vittina cumingiana (Récluz, 1842)^[1]
• Vittina gagates (Lamarck, 1822)
• Vittina jovis (Récluz, 1843)^[1]
• Vittina natalensis (Reeve, 1855)
• Vittina pennata (Born, 1778)
• Vittina plumbea (G.W. Sowerby II, 1849)
• † Vittina pomahakaensis (Finlay, 1924)^[1]
• Vittina pouchetii (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1848)
• Vittina roissyana (Récluz, 1841)^[1]
• Vittina semiconica (Lamarck, 1822)
• Vittina serrulata (Récluz, 1842)
• Vittina smithii (W. Wood, 1828)
• Vittina solium (Récluz, 1846)
• Vittina turrita (Gmelin, 1791)
• Vittina turtoni (Récluz, 1843)
• Vittina variegata (Lesson, 1831)^[1]
• Vittina waigiensis (Lesson, 1831)^[1]
• Vittina wallisiarum (Récluz, 1850)^[1]

Taxon inquirendum

• Vittina striolata (Récluz, 1841)

External links

• Bourne G.C. (1909). Contributions to the morphology of the group Neritacea of aspidobranch gastropods. Part I. The Neritidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for 1908. 810–887

Notes and References

1. Sartori, André F. (2014). Vittina H. B. Baker, 1924. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818773 on 2017-12-30