Nerita atramentosa

Nerita atramentosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Family: Neritidae
Genus: Nerita
Species:
N. atramentosa
Binomial name
Nerita atramentosa
Reeve, 1855

Nerita atramentosa, common name the black nerite, is a medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

There has been some confusion over the taxonomy of the genus Nerita in the Pacific region; however, Nerita atramentosa and Nerita melanotragus are now recognised as separate species[1] (the two have often been considered to be the same species).

  1. ^ Waters, J. M. (August 2005). "Phylogeographical disjunction in abundant high-dispersal littoral gastropods". Molecular Ecology. 14 (9): 2789–2802. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02635.x. PMID 16029478. S2CID 1560287.