Clithon
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Clithon retropictum | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Neritimorpha |
Order: | Cycloneritida |
Superfamily: | Neritoidea |
Family: | Neritidae |
Genus: | Clithon Montfort, 1810[1] |
Type species | |
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Clithon is a genus of freshwater snails[2] or brackish snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Neritidae, the nerites. [3]
Distribution[]
Distribution of the genus Clithon includes the Comoro Islands (3 species),[2] Madagascar (3 or more species) and the Mascarene Islands.[2]
Description[]
Some species, such as have spines on its shell.[2]
Species[]
Species in the genus Clithon include:
- (Récluz, 1843)[4]
- (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849)[4]
- † (Récluz, 1842)[4]
- Symonds & Pacaud, 2010 †
- † (Dalimier, 1918)
- (Récluz, 1843)[4]
- † (Cossmann, 1888)
- † (Wenz, 1929)[4]
- (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1848)[4]
- (Récluz, 1846)[4]
- (G.B. Sowerby I, 1833)[4]
- (Récluz, 1843)[4]
- † Vrinat, 2019
- † (J. Sowerby, 1823)
- Clithon corona (Linnaeus, 1758)[4]
- (Leach, 1815)[4]
- † Symonds, 2006
- Eichhorst, 2016[4]
- [citation needed]
- Clithon diadema (Récluz, 1841)[4]
- (Pease, 1868)[4]
- (Lamarck, 1822)[4]
- (Récluz, 1843)[4]
- (Récluz, 1846)[4]
- (Deshayes, 1824) †
- (G. B. Sowerby III, 1917)[4]
- Clithon faba G. B. Sowerby I, 1836[4]
- (von dem Busch, 1843)[4]
- (Mabille, 1895)[4]
- (von dem Busch, 1843)[4]
- † '' Symonds, 2015 †
- † (Récluz, 1850)
- (Récluz, 1841)
- Clithon lentiginosum (Reeve, 1855)[5]
- (Récluz, 1841)
- (Morelet, 1860)
- Clithon mertonianum (Récluz, 1843)[4]
- (Récluz, 1841)
- † Symonds, 2015
- Lesson, 1831
- (Morelet, 1857)
- † (Deshayes, 1832)
- † Vrinat, 2019
- (Récluz, 1843)
- Clithon oualaniense (Lesson, 1831)
- (Le Guillou, 1841)
- † (Deshayes, 1864)
- (Blanford, 1867)
- † (Férussac, 1823)
- † (F. E. Edwards in Lowry, 1866)
- † Symonds, 2015
- (Dohrn, 1861)
- (Récluz, 1843)
- (Mousson, 1849)
- (Le Guillou, 1841)
- (G. B. Sowerby I, 1836)[6]
- Clithon retropictum (von Martens, 1879)
- (Récluz, 1842)
- (Récluz, 1841)
- † (Deshayes, 1864)
- † (A. Férussac, 1823)
- (Récluz, 1842)
- (Récluz, 1843)
- (Récluz, 1842)
- Clithon spinosum (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825) - synonyms: Clithon spinosus, Clithon spinosa[7][8]
- (Récluz, 1843)
- † Symonds, 2009
- (G. B. Sowerby I, 1836)
- (Récluz, 1843)
- Eichhorst, 2016
- (Martens, 1878)
- † Vrinat, 2019 †
- † Popova, 1981
- (G. B. Sowerby I, 1836) (taxon inquirendum)
- (Le Guillou, 1841) (taxon inquirendum)
- Lesson, 1831 [9]
- (Dohrn, 1861)
- † (Symonds, 2002)
- † (Deshayes, 1832)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Clithon glabratum (G.B. Sowerby II, 1849):[4] synonym of (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849)
- Clithon longispina (Récluz, 1841):[2] synonym of (Leach, 1815) (junior synonym)
Ecology[]
It lives in rapid streams.[2]
References[]
- ^ Montfort (1810). Conch. Syst. 2: 326.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Clithon Montfort, 1810. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737507 on 2020-08-21
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2016). Clithon Montfort, 1810. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737507 on 2017-11-29
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2016). Clithon lentiginosum. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=873242 on 2017-11-29
- ^ MolluscaBase (2018). Clithon reticulare (G. B. Sowerby I, 1836). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=873608 on 2018-09-26
- ^ Myers M. J., Meyer C. P. & Resh V. H. (2000). "Neritid and thiarid gastropods from French Polynesian streams: how reproduction (sexual, parthenogenetic) and dispersal (active, passive) affect population structure". Freshwater Biology 44: 535–545. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2427.2000.00599.x.
- ^ Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2016). Clithon spinosum (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737522 on 2016-09-06
- ^ GBiF: Clithon undatus
- Le Guillou, E., 1841. Description de quatorze Nerites nouvelles. Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne 4: 343-347
- Mabille, J., 1895. Mollusques des Nouvelles-Hébrides recueillis par M. le Docteur François. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire naturelle d'Autun 8: 393-411
- Eichhorst T.E. (2016). Neritidae of the world. Volume 1. Harxheim: Conchbooks. 695 pp
External links[]
- Montfort P. [Denys de. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. Paris: Schoell. Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16]
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