Vittina

Vittina
	Apertural view of a shell of Vittina coromandeliana. Scale bar is 10 mm.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Neritimorpha
Order:	Cycloneritida
Superfamily:	Neritoidea
Family:	Neritidae
Genus:	Vittina; H. B. Baker, 1923
Type species
	Nerita roissyana Récluz, 1841;
Synonyms
	Nerita (Paranerita) Bourne, 1908 (Invalid: junior homonym of Paranerita Hampson, 1901 [Lepidoptera]); Neritina (Vittina) H. B. Baker, 1923 (original rank); Neritina (Vittoida) H.B. Baker, 1923 (a junior synonym); Paranerita Bourne, 1908 (Invalid: junior homonym of Paranerita Hampson, 1901 [Lepidoptera]);

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Vittina is a genus of brackish water and freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Neritininae of the family Neritidae, the nerites.^[2]

Vittina was previously recognized as a subgenus of the genus Neritina.

Distribution

Species of this genus are found estuarine and fluviatile in the Indo-Pacific.

Species

Species in the genus Vittina include:

Vittina adumbrata (Reeve, 1856)
Vittina aquatilis (Reeve, 1856)
Vittina coromandeliana (G. B. Sowerby I, 1836)^[2]
Vittina cumingiana (Récluz, 1842)^[2]
Vittina gagates (Lamarck, 1822)
Vittina jovis (Récluz, 1843)^[2]
Vittina natalensis (Reeve, 1855)
Vittina pennata (Born, 1778)
Vittina plumbea (G.W. Sowerby II, 1849)
† Vittina pomahakaensis (Finlay, 1924)^[2]
Vittina pouchetii (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1848)
Vittina roissyana (Récluz, 1841)^[2]
Vittina semiconica (Lamarck, 1822)
Vittina serrulata (Récluz, 1842)
Vittina smithii (W. Wood, 1828)
Vittina solium (Récluz, 1846)
Vittina turrita (Gmelin, 1791)
Vittina turtoni (Récluz, 1843)
Vittina variegata (Lesson, 1831)^[2]
Vittina waigiensis (Lesson, 1831)^[2]
Vittina wallisiarum (Récluz, 1850)^[2]

Taxon inquirendum

Vittina striolata (Récluz, 1841)

References

^ Baker, H. B. (1923). "Notes on the Radula of the Neritidae". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 75 (117–178, plates 9-16): 144.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Sartori, André F. (2014). Vittina H. B. Baker, 1924. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818773 on 2017-12-30

External links

Bourne G.C. (1909). Contributions to the morphology of the group Neritacea of aspidobranch gastropods. Part I. The Neritidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for 1908. 810–887

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[1] Baker, H. B. (1923). "Notes on the Radula of the Neritidae". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 75 (117–178, plates 9-16): 144.

[WoRMS_2014-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Sartori, André F. (2014). Vittina H. B. Baker, 1924. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818773 on 2017-12-30

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