| Nerita
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| A live Nerita tessellata on a rock in Guadeloupe
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| Scientific classification
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Mollusca
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| Class:
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Gastropoda
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| Order:
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Cycloneritida
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| Superfamily:
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Neritoidea
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| Family:
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Neritidae
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| Subfamily:
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Neritinae
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| Genus:
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Nerita
Linnaeus, 1758
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| Type species
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Nerita peloronta Linnaeus, 1758
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| Synonyms
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- Nerita (Adenerita) Dekker, 2000 · accepted, alternate representation
- Nerita (Amphinerita) Martens, 1887 · accepted, alternate representation
- Nerita (Argonerita) Frey & Vermeij, 2008 · accepted, alternate representation
- Nerita (Cymostyla) Martens, 1887 · accepted, alternate representation
- Nerita (Heminerita) Martens, 1887 · accepted, alternate representation
- Nerita (Ilynerita) Martens, 1887 · accepted, alternate representation
- Nerita (Lepidonerita) Vermeij, 1984 · accepted, alternate representation
- Nerita (Linnerita) Vermeij, 1984 · accepted, alternate representation
- Nerita (Lisanerita) Krijnen, 2002 · accepted, alternate representation
- Nerita (Nerita) Linnaeus, 1758 · accepted, alternate representation
- Nerita (Odontostoma) Mörch, 1852 (preoccupied by Odontostoma Turton, 1829)
- Nerita (Peloronta) Oken, 1815
- Nerita (Pila) Mörch, 1852 (objective junior synonym; preoccupied by Pila Röding, 1798)
- Nerita (Ritena) Gray, 1858 · accepted, alternate representation
- Nerita (Tenare) Gray, 1858 (objective junior synonym)
- Nerita (Theliostyla) Mörch, 1852 · accepted, alternate representation
- † Neritites Schlotheim, 1820 (invalid under Art. 20: name established for fossils, formed by adding the suffix -ites to the genus name Nerita.)
- Puperita (Heminerita) Martens, 1887 (superseded combination)
- Ritena Gray, 1858
- Theliostyla Mörch, 1852
- Turrita Wagner, 1897
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Nerita is a genus of medium-sized to small sea snails with a gill and an operculum, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Neritinae of the family Neritidae, the nerites.
This is the type genus of the family Neritidae.