Vittina
Genus of gastropods
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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 | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Vittina coromandeliana. Scale bar is 10 mm. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Cycloneritida |
| Superfamily: | Neritoidea |
| Family: | Neritidae |
| Genus: | Vittina H. B. Baker, 1923[1] |
| Type species | |
| Nerita roissyana Récluz, 1841 | |
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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]
- Vittina striolata (Récluz, 1841)
