Global InformationNerita melanotragus information
| Nerita melanotragus | |
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| A shell of Nerita melanotragus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Mollusca
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| Class: | Gastropoda
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| (unranked): | clade Neritimorpha
clade Cycloneritimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Neritoidea
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| Family: | Neritidae
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| Subfamily: | Neritinae
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| Genus: | Nerita
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| Species: | N. melanotragus
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| Binomial name | |
| Nerita melanotragus E. A. Smith, 1884
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Nerita melanotragus, common name black nerite, is a medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Neritidae, the nerites.
There has been some confusion over the taxonomy of the genus Nerita in the Pacific region, however Nerita atramentosa and Nerita melanotragus are now recognised as separate species (the two have often been considered to be the same species).[1]
- ^ Grove, S. (2007). Vicariance, dispersal, and the strange case of the Tasmanian Black Nerites. The Tasmanian Naturalist 129.[1]