Neritilia succinea is a species of submarine cave snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Neritiliidae.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Neritimorpha |
| Order: | Cycloneritida |
| Family: | Neritiliidae |
| Genus: | Neritilia |
| Species: | N. succinea
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| Binomial name | |
| Neritilia succinea (Récluz, 1841)
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Subspecies Neritilia succinea guatemalensis Pilsbry, 1920: synonym of Neritilia succinea (Récluz, 1841)
Description edit
The length of the shell attains 5 mm.
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Distribution edit
This species fas found on the riverbank on the West Indian island of Dominica.;[2] also off Guadeloupe.
References edit
- ^ Neritilia succinea (Récluz, 1841). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 May 2010.
- ^ (in German) Starmühlner F. von (1988). "Ergebnisse der Österreichisch-Französischen Hydrobiologischen Mission 1979 nach Guadeloupe, Dominica und Martinique (Kleine Antillen). Teil II: Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Süß- und Brackwassermollusken von Guadeloupe, Dominica und Martinique". Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien Serie B, 90: 221–340. PDF.
- Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
- Espinosa J., Ortea J. & Diez-García Y.L. (2017). El género Neritilia von Martens, 1879 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Neritilidae) en Cuba, con la descripción de dos nuevas especies. Avicennia. 20: 49–52.
- Robart, G., Mandahl-Barth, G. & Ripert, C. (1977). Inventaire, repartition geographique et ecologie des mollusques dulcaquicoles d'Haiti (Caraibes). Haliotis. 8: 159–171.
External links edit
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- Adams, C. B. (1845). Specierum novarum conchyliorum, in Jamaica repertorum, synopsis. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 2: 1-17
- Pilsbry, H. A. (1920). Mollusca from Central America and Mexico. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 71: 212-223, pl. 11