Neritina ectypha Woodring 1973 (snail)

Gastropoda - Neritoidea - Neritidae

Full reference: W. P. Woodring. 1973. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (additions to gastropods, scaphopods, pelecypods: Nuculidae to Malleidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(E):453-539

Belongs to Neritina according to W. P. Woodring 1973

Sister taxa: Neritina (Nereina), Neritina (Neritina), Neritina (Provittoidae), Neritina (Puperita), Neritina (Vittoidae), Neritina buekkensis, Neritina daani, Neritina daisyae, Neritina dominicana, Neritina elephantina, Neritina etheridgei, Neritina figulopicta, Neritina imitans, Neritina insolita, Neritina isabellae, Neritina jungi, Neritina martini, Neritina meesi, Neritina meleagris, Neritina nunoi, Neritina ortoni, Neritina patricknuttalli, Neritina phaseolaris, Neritina picta, Neritina pilisensis, Neritina pulligera, Neritina puncta, Neritina roxoi, Neritina seani, Neritina sparsilineata, Neritina tjidamarensis, Neritina unidenta, Neritina usnea, Neritina violacea, Neritina virginea, Neritina wyomingensis, Neritina zebra, Nerita (Dostia) escondita, Neritina (Dostia) escondita, Neritina (Dostia) cuneata

Type specimen: USNM 646650, a shell

Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer

Distribution: found only at Location 23, Rio Palenque (Gatuncillo Formation) - Woodring (1957) (Eocene of Panama)

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