Vitta rubricata
Species of gastropod
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Vitta rubricata is a species of small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.[2]
| Vitta rubricata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Cycloneritida |
| Family: | Neritidae |
| Genus: | Vitta |
| Species: | V. rubricata |
| Binomial name | |
| Vitta rubricata (Morelet, 1858) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Neritina rubricata Morelet, 1858 (original combination) | |
Distribution
This species is found in Africa, in Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
Habitat
This nerite lives in rivers.