WoRMS taxon details
Nerita textilis Gmelin, 1791
AphiaID: 216248
AphiaID: 216248
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Neritimorpha (Subclass) > Cycloneritimorpha (Order) > Neritoidea (Superfamily) > Neritidae (Family) > Nerita (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Nerita Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Nerita (Theliostyla) textilis Gmelin, 1791 Nerita plexa Dillwyn, 1817 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice [details] basis of record: Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details] from synonym: Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 49 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Dekker H. (2000) The Neritidae from the circumarabian seas. Vita Marina 47(2): 29-64. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] East Coast of South Africa [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mascarene Basin [details] Mida Creek [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (33 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Habitat: rocky cliffs (Ruwa, 1984). Up to 5 cm, surface texture of broad, ridged, spiral cords. Thick, granulose operculum. Exterior white with black spots widely spaced on cords. Thick and denticulate outer lip, colour bluish-grey. Habitat: on rocks in the littoral fringe. Distribution: Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1997 and Kalk, 1958). [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216248 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Nerita textilis Gmelin, 1791. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216248 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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