Clithon faba

Clithon faba
Clithon faba
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neritimorpha

clade Cycloneritimorpha

Superfamily: Neritoidea
Family: Neritidae
Subfamily: Neritinae
Tribe: Theodoxini
Genus: Clithon
Species: C. faba
Binomial name
Clithon faba
Sowerby I, 1836
Synonyms

Clithon sowerbianus Récluz, 1842

Clithon faba is a species of brackish water snail with an operculum, a nerite. It is an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

Distribution

This species occurs in Japan: Honshū and Kyūshū,[1] Vietnam.[2]

Clithon faba shell.

References

  1. (Japanese) "カノコガイ". Japanese Red Data Book. accessed 26 August 2010.
  2. Zvonareva S., Kantor Yu., Li X. & Britayev T. (2015). "Long-term monitoring of Gastropoda (Mollusca) fauna in planted mangroves in central Vietnam". Zoological Studies 54: 39. doi:10.1186/s40555-015-0120-0.

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