Vitta (gastropod)

Vitta is a genus of brackish water and freshwater snails, an aquatic gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Neritininae of the family Neritidae, the nerites.[1]

Vitta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Superfamily: Neritoidea
Family: Neritidae
Genus: Vitta
Mörch, 1852
Synonyms
  • Agapilia Harzhauser & Kowalke, 2001 †
  • Clithon (Vittoclithon) H. B. Baker, 1923
  • Neritella (Vitta) Mörch, 1852 (original rank)
  • Neritina (Vitta) Mörch, 1852 (new combination)
  • Neritina (Vittoclithon) H. B. Baker, 1923· accepted, alternate representation
  • Theodoxus (Vittoclithon) H. B. Baker, 1923
  • Vitta (Vitta) Mörch, 1852· accepted, alternate representation
  • Vitta (Vittoclithon) H. B. Baker, 1923· accepted, alternate representation

Species

Species within the genus Vitta include:

  • Vitta adansoniana (Récluz, 1841)
  • Vitta clenchi (Russell, 1940)
  • Vitta consobrina Eichhorst, 2016
  • Vitta cristata (Morelet, 1864)
  • †Vitta duchasteli (Deshayes, 1832)
  • Vitta glabrata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849)
  • Vitta kuramoensis (Yoloye & Adegoke, 1977)
  • Vitta luteofasciata (K. Miller, 1879)
  • Vitta meleagris (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Vitta moquiniana (Récluz, 1850)
  • †Vitta pachii (Handmann, 1889)
  • Vitta perottetiana (Récluz, 1841)
  • †Vitta picta (Férussac, 1823)
  • Vitta piratica (Russell, 1940)
  • Vitta rubricata (Morelet, 1858)
  • †Vitta rumeliana Harzhauser, Mandic, Büyükmeriç, Neubauer, Kadolsky & Landau, 2016
  • †Vitta schlickumi (Kowalke & Reichenbacher, 2005)
  • †Vitta sparsilineata (Dall, 1913)
  • Vitta usnea (Röding, 1798)
  • Vitta virginea (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Vitta zebra (Bruguière, 1792)

References
  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Vitta Mörch, 1852. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1348334 on 2021-09-26
  • Harzhauser, M., Kowalke, T. (2001). Early Miocene brackish-water Mollusca from the Eastern Mediterranean and from the Central Paratethys - a faunistic and ecological comparison by selected faunas. Journal of the Czech Geological Survey. 46 (3-4), 353–374.page(s): 355-356
  • Eichhorst T.E. (2016). Neritidae of the world. Volume 2. Harxheim: Conchbooks. Pp. 696–1366.
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