Nerita tessellata

Nerita tessellata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Family: Neritidae
Genus: Nerita
Species:
N. tessellata
Binomial name
Nerita tessellata
Gmelin, 1791[1]
Synonyms[6]
  • Nerita angulata Röding, 1798[2]
  • Nerita exarata Pfeiffer, 1840[3]
  • Nerita listeri auct. non Récluz, 1841
  • Nerita varia Mörch, 1852[4]
  • Nerita commanotata Reeve, 1855[5]
  • Nerita nivosa Reeve, 1855
  • Nerita scalpta Reeve, 1855

Nerita tessellata, sometimes known as the checkered nerite, is a species of tropical sea snail with a gill and an operculum, a nerite, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

  1. ^ Gmelin J. F. (1791). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae. Editio decima tertia. Systema Naturae, 13th ed., vol. 1(6): 3021-3910. Lipsiae.
  2. ^ Röding P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum. viii + 199 pp. Hamburg.
  3. ^ (in German) Pfeiffer L. (1840). "Uebersicht der im Januar, Februar und März 1839 auf Cuba gesammelten Mollusken". Archiv für Naturgeschichte 6(1): 250-261.
  4. ^ Mörch O. A. L. (1852). Catalogus Conchyliorum quae Reliquit D. Alphonso d'Aguirra & Gadea Comes de Yoldi. Fasciculus Primus. [vi] + 170 pp. Hafniae.
  5. ^ Reeve L. (1855). "Monograph of the genus Nerita". Conchologia Iconica 9: pls. 1-19
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference malacolog.org was invoked but never defined (see the help page).