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  Superfamily Neritoidea

Family Neritidae

    Genus Neritina -- North America.
    Genus Nerita
    Genus Puperita
    Genus Septaria
    Genus Smaragdia
    Genus Theodoxus

Taxon Information

The Family Neritidae has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has been reported from North America.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Neritidae, "1 Genus, 5 species" [North America] (Johnson et al., 2013).
• Neritidae, [Palearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental, Australasian, Pacific; 110 species worldwide, 2 Nearctic species] (Strong et al., 2008).
• Neritidae, 1 species in FL, GA, MS (Smith, 2001).

Bibliography

• Johnson, P.D., A.E. Bogan, K.M. Brown, N.M. Burkhead, J.R. Cordeiro, J.T. Garner, P.D. Hartfield, D.A.W. Lepitzki, G.L. Mackie, E. Pip, T.A. Tarpley, J.S. Tiemann, N.V. Whelan & E.E. Strong. 2013. Conservation Status of Freshwater Gastropods of Canada and the United States. Fisheries 38(6): 247-282.
• Strong, E.E., O. Gargominy, W.F. Ponder & P. Bouchet. 2008. Global diversity of gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. [Available online]
• Smith, D.G. 2001. Mollusca (Gastropods, pelecypods). Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, 4th edition: 327-400.

Web Pages

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• WikiSpecies
• World Register of Marine Species