Genus Neritina Lamarck, 1816

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Regional Maps

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [41]

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

NERITIDAE: Neritina auriculata Lamarck, 1822 — Hedley, C. 1908. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part 10. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 33: 456–489 [478] (Hedley comments after correspondence with E.A. Smith that the type locality of G. sulcosa is in error, the taxon being a variety of the common but variable Mediterranean species G. ardens von Salis. The mistake has been repeated in a few subsequent lists, viz., Angas, G.F. 1867. List of species of marine Mollusca found in Port Jackson Harbour, New South Wales, and on the adjacent coasts, with notes on their habits, etc. Part 1. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 185-233 [217]; Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1879. Census; with brief descriptions of the marine shells of Tasmania and the adjacent islands. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1877: 26-57 [42]; Whitelegge, T. 1889. List of the Marine and Fresh-Water Invertebrate Fauna of Port Jackson and Neighbourhood. Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 23: 1-161 [269]; Pritchard, G. B. & Gatliff, J. H. 1902. Catalogue of the marine shells of Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 14(2)(5): 85-138 [132]; Hardy, ? 1915. [Title unknown]. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1915: 68; Pilsbry, H.A. 1889. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia Vol. 11 pp. 1-519, pls 1-67. [243]; and probably others, all of which are misidentifications of various taxa; on p. 479 Hedley excludes Gibbula venusta A. Adams, 1853 (type locality: Australia), which is also a variety of G. ardens von Salis, by recommendation by E.A. Smith. This error is apparently only repeated in Pilsbry, H.A. 1889. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia Vol. 11 pp. 1-519, pls 1-67. [244])

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan in tropical and subtropical regions

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; NT, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), NSW North Coast (NNC), Wet Tropics (WT)

IMCRA

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

Distribution References

General References

Benthem Jutting, W.S.S. van 1956. Systematic studies on the non-marine Mollusca of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. V. Critical revision of the Javanese freshwater gastropods. Treubia 23: 259-477 [296]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [41]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Dec-2023	NERITIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	10-Dec-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Mandy Reid
15-Sep-2023	NERITIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	03-Nov-2023	MODIFIED
22-Jan-2015	NERITOIDEA	10-Dec-2023	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
29-Mar-2012		29-Mar-2012	MOVED
		28-Mar-2012	(import)