Septaria (gastropod)
Encyclopedia
Septaria is a genus
of freshwater or sea snail
s, marine
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 freshwater or sea snail
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
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 Septaria include:- Septaria borbonicaSeptaria borbonicaSeptaria borbonica is a species of freshwater snail, a gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae.Septaria borbonica is the type species of the genus Septaria.-Distribution:...
(Saint-Vincent, 1803) - type species - Septaria janelli
- Septaria lineata (Lamarck)
- Septaria porcellana (Linnaeus)
- Septaria tessellata
External links
- Haynes A. (2001). "A revision of the genus Septaria FÉRUSSAC, 1803 (Gastropoda: Neritimorpha)". Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 103B: 177-229. PDF.