Neripteron

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Neripteron
Shell of Neripteron auriculatum. Scale bar is 10 mm.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Superfamily: Neritoidea
Family: Neritidae
Genus: Neripteron
Lesson, 1831[1]
Type species
Neritina auriculata Lamarck, 1816
Synonyms[2]
  • Clithon (Alinoclithon) H. B. Baker, 1923[3]
  • Clithon (Neritoclithon) H. B. Baker, 1923
  • Dostia Gray, 1842[4]
  • Neripteron (Dostia) Gray, 1842· accepted, alternate representation
  • Neripteron (Neripteron) Lesson, 1831· accepted, alternate representation
  • Neripteron (Pseudonerita) H. B. Baker, 1923· accepted, alternate representation
  • Neritina (Dostia) Gray, 1842
  • Neritina (Neripteron) Lesson, 1831
  • Neritopteron P. Fischer, 1885[5] (unjustified emendation of Neripteron)
  • Pseudonerita H. B. Baker, 1923

Neripteron is a genus of brackish water and freshwater snails, an aquatic gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Neritininae of the family Neritidae, the nerites.[6]

Neripteron auriculatum is the type species of the genus Neripteron.[2]

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