Animalia > Mollusca > Gastropoda > Cycloneritida > Neritidae > Theodoxus > Theodoxus fluviatilisTheodoxus fluviatilis (river nerite)Synonyms: Nerita fluviatilis (homotypic); Nerita mittreana; Neritina brauneri; Neritina dalmatina; Neritina danubialis var. danasteri; Neritina euxina; Neritina euxinus; Neritina fluviatilis; Neritina fluviatilis var. abrauensis; Neritina fluviatilis var. cereoflava; Neritina fluviatilis zernovnicensis; Neritina heldreichi; Neritina heldreichi var. graeca; Neritina saulcyi (homotypic); Theodoxia ghigii; Theodoxus brauneri; Theodoxus danasteri; Theodoxus dniestroviensis; Theodoxus euxinus; Theodoxus fluviatilis subthermalis; Theodoxus fluviatilis var. subthermalis; Theodoxus heldreichi; Theodoxus heldreichi fluvicola; Theodoxus heldreichi heldreichi; Theodoxus lutetianus; Theodoxus saulcyi; Theodoxus subthermalis Theodoxus fluviatilis, common name the river nerite, is a species of small freshwater and brackish water snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites. This widely distributed neritid snail species occurs from Europe to Central Asia. It has a thick shell with a calcified operculum. The coloration pattern on the shell is very variable. Theodoxus fluviatilis lives in freshwater and in brackish water, in rivers and lakes on stones. It feeds mainly by grazing on biofilms and diatoms. |
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Central & Western Europe |
Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 2Lappalainen, A., M. Rask, H. Koponen & S. Vesala, 2001. Relative abundance,
diet and growth of perch (Perca fluviatilis) and roach (Rutilus rutilus) at Tvärminne, northern Baltic Sea, in 1975 and 1997: responses to eutrophication? Boreal Env. Res. 6: 107–118 ♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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