Vittina
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| Vittina | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Vittina coromandeliana. Scale bar is 10 mm. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Neritimorpha |
| Order: | Cycloneritida |
| Superfamily: | Neritoidea |
| Family: | Neritidae |
| Genus: | Vittina H. B. Baker, 1923[1] |
| Type species | |
| Nerita roissyana Récluz, 1841 | |
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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 was previously recognized as a subgenus of the genus Neritina.
Species of this genus are found estuarine and fluviatile in the Indo-Pacific.
