Vittina

Vittina
	Apertural view of a shell of Vittina coromandeliana. Scale bar is 10 mm.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Neritimorpha
Order:	Cycloneritida
Superfamily:	Neritoidea
Family:	Neritidae
Genus:	Vittina; H. B. Baker, 1923
Type species
	Nerita roissyana Récluz, 1841;
Synonyms
	Nerita (Paranerita) Bourne, 1908 (Invalid: junior homonym of Paranerita Hampson, 1901 [Lepidoptera]); Neritina (Vittina) H. B. Baker, 1923 (original rank); Neritina (Vittoida) H.B. Baker, 1923 (a junior synonym); Paranerita Bourne, 1908 (Invalid: junior homonym of Paranerita Hampson, 1901 [Lepidoptera]);

Vittina 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.^[2]

Vittina was previously recognized as a subgenus of the genus Neritina.

Distribution

Species of this genus are found estuarine and fluviatile in the Indo-Pacific.

Species in the genus Vittina include:

^ Baker, H. B. (1923). "Notes on the Radula of the Neritidae". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 75 (117–178, plates 9-16): 144.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Sartori, André F. (2014). Vittina H. B. Baker, 1924. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818773 on 2017-12-30

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