Clithon

Clithon
Clithon retropictum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Cycloneritida
Superfamily: Neritoidea
Family: Neritidae
Genus: Clithon
Montfort, 1810
Type species
Nerita corona
Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
  • Clithon (Clithon) Montfort, 1810
  • Clithon (Pictoneritina) Iredale, 1936
  • Corona Récluz, 1850 (objective synonym)
  • Nerita (Clithon) Montfort, 1810
  • Neritina (Clithon) Montfort, 1810
  • Pictoneritina Iredale, 1936*
  • Theodoxus (Pictoneritina) Iredale, 1936 (new combination)

Clithon is a genus of freshwater snails or brackish snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

Distribution

Distribution of the genus Clithon includes the Comoro Islands (3 species), Madagascar (3 or more species) and the Mascarene Islands.

Description

Some species, such as Clithon coronatum have spines on its shell.

Species

Clithon diadema shell

Species in the genus Clithon include:

Species brought into synonymy

Ecology

It lives in rapid streams.

References

  1. ↑ Montfort (1810). Conch. Syst. Vol. 2. p. 326.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Brown, D. S. (1994). Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance (2nd ed.). London; Bristol, PA: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-7484-0026-3.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2020). "Clithon Montfort, 1810". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
  4. ↑ Bouchet P (2016). Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Clithon lentiginosum (Reeve, 1855)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
  5. ↑ Gassies (1863). Faune conchyliologique terrestre et fluvio-lacustre de la Nouvelle-Calédonie Part 1. Vol. 24. Actes de la Société linnéenne de Bordeaux. pp. 104–105 (Pl.8, Fig.5).
  6. ↑ Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2018). "Clithon reticulare (G. B. Sowerby I, 1836)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2018-09-26.
  7. ↑ Myers, Marilyn J.; Meyer, Chris P.; Resh, Vincent H. (2000). "Neritid and thiarid gastropods from French Polynesian streams: how reproduction (sexual, parthenogenetic) and dispersal (active, passive) affect population structure". Freshwater Biology. 44 (3): 535–545. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2427.2000.00599.x. ISSN 0046-5070.
  8. ↑ Bouchet P, Rosenberg G (2016). Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Clithon spinosum (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
  9. ↑ "Clithon undatus Lesson, 1831". Global Biodiversity Information Facility.