Smaragdia souverbiana
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| Smaragdia souverbiana | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Neritimorpha |
| Order: | Cycloneritida |
| Family: | Neritidae |
| Genus: | Smaragdia |
| Species: | S. souverbiana |
| Binomial name | |
| Smaragdia souverbiana (Montrouzier, 1863) | |
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Smaragdia souverbiana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae.[1]
Smaragdia souverbiana is a small (<2mm aperture) seagrass associated Nerite. Its shell is sand to green in colour, with distinctive thin black bands with embedded clear diamonds across the whorls. It is commonly found in seagrasses, where it is believed to feed directly on seagrass cells (rather than algae epiphyte like many other seagrass associated gastropods). Feces examined from specimens collected from the intertidal zone contained both seagrass and epiphyte material.[2]
