Neritilia
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| Neritilia | |
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| Neritilia succinea shells (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Cycloneritida |
| Superfamily: | Helicinoidea |
| Family: | Neritiliidae |
| Genus: | Neritilia von Martens, 1879[1] |
| Type species | |
| Nerita peloronta Linnaeus, 1758 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Neritilia is a genus of freshwater snails which live near the sea coast in submarine caves.[3] They have an operculum, and are aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Neritiliidae.[2]
