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.[2]

Vittina
Apertural view of a shell of Vittina coromandeliana. Scale bar is 10 mm.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Superfamily: Neritoidea
Family: Neritidae
Genus: Vittina
H. B. Baker, 1923[1]
Type species
Nerita roissyana Récluz, 1841
Synonyms
  • Nerita (Paranerita) Bourne, 1908 (Invalid: junior homonym of Paranerita Hampson, 1901 [Lepidoptera])
  • Neritina (Vittina) H. B. Baker, 1923 (original rank)
  • Neritina (Vittoida) H.B. Baker, 1923 (a junior synonym)
  • Paranerita Bourne, 1908 (Invalid: junior homonym of Paranerita Hampson, 1901 [Lepidoptera])

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

Distribution

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

Species

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Species in the genus Vittina include:

Taxon inquirendum
  • Vittina striolata (Récluz, 1841)

References

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  1. ^ Baker, H. B. (1923). "Notes on the Radula of the Neritidae". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 75 (117–178, plates 9-16): 144.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i 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
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