Anchialine pool snail
Appearance
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Anchialine pool snail | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Neritimorpha |
Order: | Cycloneritida |
Family: | Neritiliidae |
Genus: | Neritilia |
Species: | N. hawaiiensis
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Binomial name | |
Neritilia hawaiiensis Kay, 1979
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The anchialine pool snail, scientific name Neritilia hawaiiensis, is a species living in brackish estuaries and in anchialine pools.[2] These snails have an operculum, and are aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritiliidae.
Distribution
[edit]This species is endemic to the islands of Hawaii, United States, and lives only in brackish estuaries and in anchialine pools,[2] which are marine pools that have no surface connection with the ocean but that are salty and that fluctuate in level with the tides.
References
[edit]- ^ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). "Neritilia hawaiiensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T14624A4450084. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T14624A4450084.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ a b "Neritilia hawaiiensis" Archived June 10, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, accessed 19 May 2010.