Nereina

Genus of gastropods

Nereina

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Neritimorpha
Order:  | Cycloneritida
Superfamily:  | Neritoidea
Family:  | Neritidae
Genus:  | Nereina
de Cristofori & Jan, 1832
Type species
Nereina lacustris de Cristofori & Jan, 1832

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

## Species

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* Nereina afra (G. B. Sowerby I, 1836)
* Nereina cresswelli Eichhorst, 2016
* Nereina haemastoma (Martens, 1878)
* Nereina punctulata (Lamarck, 1816)

Species brought into synonymy

* Nereina lacustris de Cristofori & Jan, 1832: synonym of Nereina punctulata (Lamarck, 1816)

## References

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1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Nereina de Cristofori & Jan, 1832. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=871688 on 2021-09-26

* Eichhorst T.E. (2016). Neritidae of the world. Volume 1. Harxheim: Conchbooks. 695 pp.

## External links

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* Media related to Nereina at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers

Nereina|

* Wikidata: Q28038629
* CoL: 7P9R2
* GBIF: 3245106
* iNaturalist: 625694
* Open Tree of Life: 5301684
* WoRMS: 871688