Gastropoda - Neritoidea - Neritidae
Full reference: P. Choffat. 1888. Description des fossiles crétaciques, mollusques, in Matériaux pour l'étude stratigraphique et paléontologique de la province d'Angola. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 30(2):61-95
Belongs to Nerita according to P. Choffat 1888
Sister taxa: Nerita (Amphinerita), Nerita (Bajanerita), Nerita (Chingua), Nerita (Heminerita), 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 crooki, Nerita decorata, Nerita deformis, Nerita filosa, Nerita globosa, Nerita granulosa, Nerita hadra, Nerita helicina, Nerita klipsteini, Nerita listrota, 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
Type specimen: Its type locality is Dombe-Grande (couches à Pholadomya pleuromyaeformis), which is in an Aptian marine sandstone in Angola
Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer
Distribution: found only at Dombe-Grande (couches à Pholadomya pleuromyaeformis)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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