Nerita tessellata
| Nerita tessellata | |
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| A live individual of Nerita tessellata on a rock in Guadeloupe | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Neritimorpha clade Cycloneritimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Neritoidea |
| Family: | Neritidae |
| Subfamily: | Neritinae |
| Genus: | Nerita |
| Species: | N. tessellata |
| Binomial name | |
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Nerita tessellata Gmelin, 1791 |
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| Synonyms | |
clade Cycloneritimorpha
Nerita tessellata, sometimes known as the "checkered nerite" is a species of tropical sea snail with a gill and an operculum, a nerite, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.
This nerite occurs on the shores of the Western Atlantic Ocean including Florida, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, the West Indies and Brazil.
This species lives high up in the intertidal zone on rocks.
The shell of this nerite can be as large as 25 mm. The background shell color is black, usually with white markings. Fairly often the white markings are regularly spaced, and make the shell look checkered or tesselated (tiled), hence the specific name of this species.
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