Nerita Linnaeus 1758 (snail)

Gastropoda - Neritoidea - Neritidae

Alternative spelling: Naticopsis (Nerita)

Parent taxon: Neritinae according to B. M. Landau et al. 2016

See also Addicott 1970, Bandel and Kiel 2003, Bouchet et al. 2005, Devries 2019, Dockery 1993, Durham 1944, Givens and Kennedy 1976, Harzhauser 2002, Harzhauser 2004, Ladd 1966, MacNeil 1960, Nagao 1928, Oostingh 1935, Petuch 1988, Saul and Squires 1997, Sepkoski 2002, Shumard and Swallow 1858, Squires 1984, Squires 1987, Squires and Saul 2002, Squires and Saul 2005, Symonds 2002, Todd 2001, Turner 1938, Weisbord 1962, Wilson 1993 and Woodring 1973

Sister taxa: Agapilia, Corsania, Lissochilus, Neritella, Neritoma, Protonerita, Semineritina

Subtaxa: Nerita (Amphinerita) Nerita (Bajanerita) Nerita (Chingua) Nerita (Linnerita) Nerita (Nerita) Nerita (Ritena) Nerita (Theliostyla) Nerita (Trochonerita) Nerita atramentosa Nerita balteata Nerita beali Nerita biangulata Nerita compacta Nerita conoidea Nerita cooki Nerita costata Nerita decorata Nerita deformis Nerita filosa Nerita globosa Nerita granulosa Nerita hadra Nerita helicina Nerita klipsteini Nerita listrota Nerita malheiroi Nerita mammaria Nerita multigranosa Nerita munita Nerita oligopleura Nerita ornata Nerita ornata Nerita orovillensis Nerita oviformis Nerita palaeomorpha Nerita planospira Nerita pulligera Nerita reticulirata Nerita rumphi Nerita salsa Nerita semilevis Nerita squamulata Nerita squatina Nerita subgranulosa Nerita tessellata Nerita tricarinata Nerita undata Nerita versicolor Nerita violacea Nerita vokesi

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Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Australia (3), Bermuda (2), Cuba (2), Djibouti (4), Eritrea (4), French Polynesia (1), Greece (1), Haiti (1), India (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Kenya (2), Mexico (4), Panama (1), Saudi Arabia (7), the Seychelles (1), South Africa (1), Spain (2), Sudan (1), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), United States (6: Hawaii), Vanuatu (2), Venezuela (2), Yemen (1)

• Pliocene of Australia (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (1), Fiji (2), Indonesia (4), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), United States (1: California), Venezuela (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Austria (2), Chile (3), Colombia (6), Fiji (1), France (1), Grenada (2), Indonesia (7), Italy (6), Japan (5), Madagascar (1), the Marshall Islands (3), Palau (1), Panama (2), Poland (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Venezuela (2)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (2: Florida)

• Oligocene of Bulgaria (2), Ecuador (1), Germany (1), Greece (1), Iran (1), Italy (1), Mexico (1), Peru (1), United States (3: California, Georgia)

• Eocene of Bulgaria (3), Colombia (1), Croatia (1), France (8), Italy (2), Japan (4), Panama (1), Peru (3), the United Kingdom (3), United States (31: Alabama, California, Oregon, Texas, Washington)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Pakistan (1)

• Paleocene of Mexico (1), Poland (4), Puerto Rico (1)

• Cretaceous of Angola (1), Bulgaria (1), Cameroon (4), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Iran (1), Italy (1), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (1), Nigeria (1), Portugal (2), Spain (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (39: Arizona, California, Georgia, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)

• Jurassic of Germany (2), Lebanon (1), Portugal (12), Tanzania (2), the United Kingdom (1)

• Triassic of Indonesia (1), Italy (1), United States (1: Alaska)

• Permian of Italy (1)

Total: 274 collections including 331 occurrences

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