Clithon
| Clithon | |
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| 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 Montfort, 1810[1] |
Clithon is a genus of freshwater snails[2] or brackish snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Neritidae, the nerites.
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 Clithon longispina have spines on its shell.[2]
Species
Species in the genus Clithon include:
- Clithon corona (Linnaeus, 1758) - synonyms: Clithon brevispina, Clithon angulosus, Clithon angulosa Recluz, 1842
- Clithon chlorostoma (Broderip, 1832)
- Clithon cuvieriana
- Clithon diadema
- Clithon faba Sowerby, 1836 - synonym: Clithon sowerbianus Récluz, 1842
- Clithon longispina (Récluz, 1841)[2]
- Clithon michaudi
- Clithon oualaniensis (Lesson, 1831)
- Clithon retropictus (von Martens, 1879)
- Clithon spinosus - synonym: Clithon spinosa[3]
Ecology
It live in rapid streams.[2]
References
- ↑ Montfort (1810). Conch. Syst. 2: 326.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
- ↑ 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.