| Nerita peloronta | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Neritimorpha clade Cycloneritimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Neritoidea |
| Family: | Neritidae |
| Genus: | Nerita |
| Species: | N. peloronta |
| Binomial name | |
| Nerita peloronta Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Nerita peloronta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae.[2]
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This shell large among nerites, is thick and short spired. Its surface may have slighty raised spiral ridges. The dark red operculum is granulated on its inner side. The color of the shell is yellow, reddish, or creamy, with darker streaks or zigzags.
Rocks inshore. W.Indies, W.Florida, Bermuda, and the Caribbean.