Vittina

Vittina
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
Synonyms
Nerita (Paranerita) Bourne, 1908 (Invalid: junior homonym of Paranerita Hampson, 1901 [Lepidoptera]) Neritina (Vittina) H. B. Baker, 1923 (original rank) Neritina (Vittoida) H.B. Baker, 1923 (a junior synonym) Paranerita Bourne, 1908 (Invalid: junior homonym of Paranerita Hampson, 1901 [Lepidoptera])

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.

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]

Taxon inquirendum

• Vittina striolata (Récluz, 1841)

References

1. Baker, H. B. (1923). "Notes on the Radula of the Neritidae". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 75 (117–178, plates 9-16): 144.
2. Sartori, André F. (2014). Vittina H. B. Baker, 1924. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818773 on 2017-12-30

External links

• Bourne G.C. (1909). Contributions to the morphology of the group Neritacea of aspidobranch gastropods. Part I. The Neritidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for 1908. 810–887