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neritid - operculate seasnail of coastal waters with a short spiral shell

seasnail - any of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks; tritons; moon shells; neritids

family Neritidae, Neritidae - neritids

nerita - a neritid gastropod having a short smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum

bleeding tooth, Nerita peloronta - gastropod having reddish toothlike projections around the shell opening; of the Caribbean area

neritina - ornately marked and brightly colored snails of brackish waters

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Diel and tidal movement of two co-occurring neritid snails differences in grazing patterns on a tropical rocky shore.

Influencia de la vigilancia en una zona rocosa dentro de un area marina protegida, Pacifico Central de Costa Rica

From cold seeps in the Gulf of Mexico, two vestimentiferan tube-worms, Lamellibrachia luymesi and Seepiophila jonesi, have been cultured to trochophore larvae (Young et al., 1996b); the polychaete "iceworm" Hesiocaeca methanicola that resides in methane hydrates at seep sites has been cultured to early ciliated larvae (Eckelbarger et al, 2001); and most recently, encapsulated embryos of the cold-seep neritid gastropod Bathynerita naticoidea have been reared in the laboratory to free-swimming, feeding veligers (Van Gaest, 2006).

Spawning, development, and the duration of larval life in a deep-sea cold-seep mussel

Massive upstream migrations by a tropical freshwater neritid snail.

Effects of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) on mobility of three native mollusk species

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