Nerita signata

Nerita signata
Nerita signata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Neritimorpha
Order:	Cycloneritida
Family:	Neritidae
Genus:	Nerita
Species:	N. signata
Binomial name
Nerita signata Lamarck, 1822
Synonyms[1]
Nerita (Argonerita) signata Lamarck, 1822· accepted, alternate representation Nerita petechialis Mörch, 1852 Nerita pygmaea Martens, 1889 Nerita reticulata Karsten, 1789 (unavailable: published in a work placed on the Official Index by Opinion 1877) Nerita reticulata var. pygmaea Martens, 1889 (junior synonym) Nerita rudis Wood, 1828 Nerita samoensis Dunker, 1869 Nerita siquata [sic] (misspelling)

Nerita signata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae.^[2]

The size of the shell attains 26 mm.

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This species occurs off Papua New Guinea

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• Martens, E. von. (1856-1889). Die Gattungen Nerita und Neritopsis. In: W. Kobelt, Ed. Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Neu herausgegeben und vervollständigt. Zweiten Bandes elfte Abtheilung. 2 (11): 1-147, plates A, 1-15. Nürnberg: Bauer & Raspe
• Wood, W. (1828). Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign. Richard Taylor, London. Iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8,
• Mörch, O. A. L. (1852-1853). Catalogus conchyliorum quae reliquit D. Alphonso d'Aguirra & Gadea Comes de Yoldi, Regis Daniae Cubiculariorum Princeps, Ordinis Dannebrogici in Prima Classe & Ordinis Caroli Tertii Eques.
• Dunker, W. (1869). Museum Godeffroy. Catalog IV. Hamburg. xxxix, 139 pp