Nerita exuvia

Nerita exuvia
Five views of a shell of Nerita exuvia
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neritimorpha

clade Cycloneritimorpha

Superfamily: Neritoidea
Family: Neritidae
Subfamily: Neritinae
Genus: Nerita
Species: N. exuvia
Binomial name
Nerita exuvia
Linnaeus, 1758

Nerita exuvia, common name the "snakeskin nerite", is a medium-sized species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

Distribution

References

  1. IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 April 2009.
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