Clithon Montfort, 1810

Symonds, Malcolm Francis & Pacaud, Jean-Michel, 2010, New species of Neritidae (Neritimorpha) from the Ypresian and Bartonian of the Paris and Basse-Loire Basins, France, Zootaxa 2606, pp. 55-68 : 59

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.197721
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6209657
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Genus Clithon Montfort, 1810

Type species. By original designation: Nerita corona Linné, 1758 .

Recent, fresh to brackish water, eastern Indian Ocean to the southwestern Pacific.

Diagnosis. Small spire, large body whorl, some species with one subsutural row of spines, labial area smooth with one or more teeth on margin, operculum smooth or bearing minute granules on exterior surface, inner side with two apophyses connected by calcareous callus.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Gastropoda
SubClass	Neritimorpha
Order	Cycloneritimorpha
Family	Neritidae

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