• Neritopsis Grateloup, J.P.S. 1832. Description d'un genre nouveau de coquille, appelé Néritopside. Actes de la Société Linnéene de Bordeaux 5: 125-131 [125, 126].

  Type species:

   Neritopsis moniliformis Grateloup, 1832 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Bouchet, P. 2011. List of Molluscan Genera, with type species information. Document held by ABRS for the purposes of AFD molluscan loads.
• Radula Gray, J.E. 1842. Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum. London : British Museum 44th Edn., 304 pp. [60] [no originally included species. Not available (nomen nudum) from Gray, 1840, Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum, ed. 42, first printing: 147].

  Type species:

   Neritopsis granulata Sowerby, 1834 by subsequent designation (Gray, 1847, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 15: 150).

  Secondary source:

   Bouchet, P. 2011. List of Molluscan Genera, with type species information. Document held by ABRS for the purposes of AFD molluscan loads.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, tropical western Atlantic

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Lozouet, P. 2009. A new Neritopsidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Neritopsina) from French Polynesia. Zoosystema 31(1): 189-198 [190-191]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [38]

History of changes

• Nerita radula 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 Edn., 824 pp. [777].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).

Generic Combinations

• Neritopsis radula (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [38, pl. 2, figs 13a-b]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

General References

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [61]

Ladd, H.S. 1966. Chitons and gastropods (Haliotidae through Adeorbidae) from the western Pacific Islands. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 531: 1-98 16 pls [55]

Salvat, B. & Rives, C. 1975. Coquillages de Polynésie. Tahiti : Papéete Les editions du pacifique, 391 pp. [262]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [38, pl. 2, figs 13a-b]

History of changes