Species Nerita histrio Linnaeus, 1758

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nerita histrio Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [778].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Indonesia; New Guinea.
• Nerita squamulata Le Guillou, M. 1841. Description de quatorze nerites nouvelles. Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne 1841: 344-345 [344].

  Type data:

   Status unknown.
• Nerita modesta Hombron, J.B. & Jacquinot, C.H. (eds) 1853. Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée exécuté par ordre du Roi pendant les années 1837-1840, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville Capitaine de Vaisseau. Zoologie. Paris : Gide & Baudry Vol. 3 166 pp. [pl. 16, fig. 3,6].

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Nerita (Argonerita) histrio Linnaeus, 1758. —
  Limpalaer, L. 2010. Throwing light of the Neretidae. Xenophora. Association française de conchyliologie 129(1): 31-38 [33]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Western Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

Australian Museum 2011. Mollusca: loose leaf system. [Neritidae 1]

Eldredge, L.G. 1987. Preliminary catalog of described species of the genus Nerita (Gastropoda:Neritidae). 159 pp. [55]

Frey, M.A. & Vermeij, G.J. 2008. Molecular phylogenies and historical biogeography of a circumtropical group of gastropods (Genus: Nerita): Implications for regional diversity patterns in the marine tropics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48: 1067–1086 [1069]

Limpalaer, L. 2010. Throwing light of the Neretidae. Xenophora. Association française de conchyliologie 129(1): 31-38 [33]

Smith, E.A. 1903. Marine Mollusca. (pp. 589-630, pls. XXXV-XXXVI) in Gardiner, J.S. (ed.). The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, being the account of work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900. Cambridge : University Press Vol. II(Part II) pp. 589–698, pls. XXXV-XLVIII). [617]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [41, pl. 2, figs 4a-c] (as Nerita squamulata)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
06-Aug-2012	NERITOIDEA	06-Aug-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
29-Mar-2012		29-Mar-2012	MOVED
		28-Mar-2012	(import)