Nerita planospira is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae.[1]
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Nerita planospira Anton, 1839
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The shell is cream and mottled black in color with an inner surface of the flat-spired nerite smooth and white. It has a toothed shelf protecting the entrance. The outer surface is thick and roughly ridged, and tightly coiled.[2]
This marine species occurs off Papua New Guinea