Clithon retropictus

Clithon retropictus
Clithon retropictus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neritimorpha

clade Cycloneritimorpha
Superfamily: Neritoidea
Family: Neritidae
Subfamily: Neritinae
Tribe: Theodoxini
Genus: Clithon
Species: C. retropictus
Binomial name
Clithon retropictus
(von Martens, 1879)

Clithon retropictus is a species of freshwater and brackish water snail with an operculum, a nerite. It is an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

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Distribution

This species occurs in Japan:[1] Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku.[2]

Habitat

This nerite lives in brackish water as well as freshwater.[1]

Life cycle

Clithon retropictus is oviparous.[1] Juveniles hatch from eggs in September.[1] The lifespan of Clithon retropictus is up to 12 years and it belongs among the most long-lived of freshwater gastropods.[3]

Parasites

References

  1. ^ a b c d FURUJO Yuki & TOMIYAMA Kiyonori. Distribution and Microhabitat of Coexisting Two Freshwater Snail Species, Semisulcospira libertina (Gould)(Prosobranchia; Pleuroceridae) and Clithon retropictus (Martens) (Prosobranchia: Neritidae). The Japanese journal of malacology. Venus, Vol. 59, No. 3(20000930), pp. 245-260.
  2. ^ (Japanese) イシマキガイ Clithon retropictus. accessed 6 January 2011.
  3. ^ Shigemiya Y. & Kato M. (2001). "Age distribution, growth, and lifetime copulation frequency of a freshwater snail, Clithon retropictus (Neritidae)". Population Ecology 43(2): 133-140. doi:10.1007/PL00012024.
  4. ^ Kumazawa N. H., Kato E., Takaba T. & Yokota T. (August 1988). "Survival of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in two gastropod molluscs, Clithon retropictus and Nerita albicilla". Nippon Juigaku Zasshi 50(4): 918-924. PubMed

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