Nerita melanotragus

Nerita melanotragus
A shell of Nerita melanotragus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Family: Neritidae
Genus: Nerita
Species:
N. melanotragus
Binomial name
Nerita melanotragus

Nerita melanotragus, common name 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 (the two have often been considered to be the same species).[1]

  1. ^ Grove, S. (2007). Vicariance, dispersal, and the strange case of the Tasmanian Black Nerites. The Tasmanian Naturalist 129.[1]