Platynerita
Encyclopedia
Platynerita is a genus
of submarine cave snail
s, marine gastropod mollusks in the family
Neritiliidae
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of submarine cave snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, marine gastropod mollusks in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Neritiliidae
Neritiliidae
Neritiliidae is a family of submarine cave snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the clade Cycloneritimorpha...
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Species
Species within the genus Platynerita include:- Platynerita rufaPlatynerita rufaPlatynerita rufa is a species of submarine cave snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritiliidae....
Kano & Kase, 2003