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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: : Neritoidea: Neritidae

Neritina punctulata Lamarck, 1816
Freshwater; listed as some congeners are marine


Range: 20°N to 11.3°N; 96°W to 61°W
Depth: 0 to 0 m (live 0 to 0 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 33  mm

Details


Neritina punctulata Lamarck, 1816, pl. 455, figs. 2a-b
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Not stated [Rio Grande, Port Antonio, Jamaica (designated by Russell 1941)]
Range: 20°N to 11.3°N; 96°W to 61°W
Depth: 0 m (live 0 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 33 mm
Distribution: Mexico: Veracruz; Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela: unlocalized; Cuba: Santiago de Cuba, Guantanamo; Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique; St. Vincent & the Grenadines: St. Vincent, Grenada
References: Sowerby II (1836a); Shuttleworth (1854) s; Dautzenberg (1900); E. A. Andrews (1940b) {EW}; Russell (1941) EW; Aguayo & Jaume (1947a) N; Princz (1982a); Díaz & Puyana (1994) SM; Fernández Milera (1998)
Comments: A freshwater species.


Partial List of References

Lamarck, [J. B.] 1816. Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique des Trois Règnes de la Nature  [iii] + 16 pp., pls. 391-431, 431 bis, 431 bis*, 432-488. Veuve Agasse: Paris.

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