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Nerita fulgurans


Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Neritimorpha
Order:	Cycloneritida
Family:	Neritidae
Genus:	Nerita
Species:	N. fulgurans
Binomial name
*Nerita fulgurans* Gmelin, 1791
Synonyms^[1]
Nerita antillarum Gmelin, 1791 Nerita nigreola Röding, 1798 Nerita praecognita C. B. Adams, 1845 Nerita albipunctata Reeve, 1855 Nerita lindae Petuch, 1988

Nerita fulgurans is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae.^[2]

Distribution

Usually found on hard structures in estuarine conditions protected from significant wave action. Found along the Atlantic coast of Florida, as far North as the St. Augustine inlet, to the south it has been identified on the island Barbados.^[3]

Description

Nerita fulgurans is dark in colour with various shades of yellow and black on the shell.^[4] The maximum recorded shell length is 37 mm.^[5]

Circulatory system: The osmotic pressure of the hemolymph of Nerita fulgurans is 1060 mOsm.^[6]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 0 m.^[5] Maximum recorded depth is 0 m.^[5] The snail occupies the high rocky intertodal zone and prefers brackish habitats such as mangrove forests and seagrass beds.^[4]

References

^ Malacolog : Nerita fulgurans
^ Nerita fulgurans Gmelin, 1791. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 May 2010.
^ das Chagas, Rafael Anaisce; da Silva, Rosana Esther Oliveira; Freire, Cibele Cristina Oeiras; Barros, Mara Rúbia Ferreira; Dos Santos, Wagner César Rosa; dos Santos, Weverton John Pinheiro; Herrmann, Marko (21 May 2020). "Marine gastropods of Accra Beach, Barbados, North Atlantic Ocean". Neotropical Biology and Conservation. 15 (2): 121–133. doi:10.3897/neotropical.15.e49624. ISSN 2236-3777.
^ ^a ^b "Indian River Lagoon Species Inventory Taxon Profile". www.irlspecies.org. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.
^ Colin Little (1983). The Colonisation of Land: Origins and Adaptations of Terrestrial Animals. Cambridge University Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-521-25218-8.

Taxon identifiers
Nerita fulgurans	Wikidata: Q3168855 BOLD: 164255 CoL: 73X52 EoL: 620142 GBIF: 5189972 iNaturalist: 82796 IRMNG: 10240005 ITIS: 70169 NCBI: 537769 OBIS: 419503 Open Tree of Life: 508535 Paleobiology Database: 347276 SeaLifeBase: 1830 WoRMS: 419503

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