Puperita
Encyclopedia
Puperita is a genus
of snail
s, gastropod mollusks in the family
Neritidae
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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 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, 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...
Neritidae
Neritidae
Neritidae, common name the nerites, is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized saltwater and freshwater snails which have a gill and a distinctive operculum, marine, brackish water and freshwater gastropod mollusks in the order Neritoida....
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Species
Species within the genus Puperita include:- Puperita bensoniPuperita bensoniPuperita bensoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae....
(Recluz, 1850) - Puperita pupaPuperita pupaPuperita pupa is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.-Distribution:The distribution of Puperita pupa includes:* Caribbean Sea* Cayman Islands* Colombia* Costa Rica* Cuba...
(Linnaeus, 1767) - in the brackish water