BREAKING NEWS
Cloud Server Hosting For Online Businesses
Inexpensive SEO Services
Benefits of Wanting to play Free Online Slot machines
Neritina asperulata

Summary

Neritina asperulata is a species of a marine and freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.[3]

Neritina asperulata
Neritina asperulata shells (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Family: Neritidae
Genus: Neritina
Species:
N. asperulata
Binomial name
Neritina asperulata
(Récluz, 1843)
Synonyms[2]
  • Neripteron (Pseudonerita) asperulatum (Récluz, 1843)· accepted, alternate representation
  • Neripteron asperulatum (Récluz, 1843)
  • Nerita asperulata Récluz, 1843 (original combination)
  • Neritina sulculosa Martens, 1877
  • Pseudonerita sulculosa (Martens, 1877)

Distribution edit

This species occurs in the Philippines and on the Solomon Islands.[4]

Ecology edit

Neritina asperulata is an amphidromous species.[4]

Juvenile snails of Neritina asperulata attach to a shell of another neritid snail Neritina pulligera and migrate like this for several kilometers.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ Madhyastha, A. (2010). Neritina sulculosa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T166708A6266110. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T166708A6266110.en. Downloaded on 08 December 2017.
  2. ^ Bouchet, P. (2016). Neripteron asperulatum (Récluz, 1843). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=873811 on 2017-12-08
  3. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Neritina asperulata (Récluz, 1843). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=871340 on 2021-09-20
  4. ^ a b c Kano, Yasunori (2009-08-23). "Hitchhiking behaviour in the obligatory upstream migration of amphidromous snails". Biology Letters. 5 (4): 465–468. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2009.0191. ISSN 1744-9561. PMC 2781923. PMID 19411267.
  • Abdou, A.; Galzin, R.; Lord, C.; Denis, G. P. J. & Keith, P. (2017). Revision of the species complex 'Neritina pulligera' (Gastropoda, Cycloneritimorpha: Neritidae) using taxonomy and barcoding. Vie et Milieu. 67 (3-4): 149-161

External links edit

  • Récluz, C. A. (1843). Descriptions of new species of Nerites, collected by Mr. Cuming in the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1842) 10: 168-176
  • Martens, E. von. (1863-1879). Die Gattung Neritina. In: Küster, H. C.; Kobelt, W., Weinkauff, H. C., Eds. Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Neu herausgegeben und vervollständigt. Zweiten Bandes zehnte Abtheilung. 1-303, pls A, 1-23. Nürnberg: Bauer & Raspe
  • Récluz, C. A. (1843). Descriptions of new species of Nerites, collected by Mr. Cuming in the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1842) 10: 168-176

  Media related to Neritina asperulata at Wikimedia Commons