Clithon retropictus
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| Clithon retropictus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Neritimorpha clade Cycloneritimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Neritoidea |
| Family: | Neritidae |
| Subfamily: | Neritinae |
| Tribe: | Theodoxini |
| Genus: | Clithon |
| Species: | C. retropictus |
| Binomial name | |
| Clithon retropictus (von Martens, 1879) | |
Clithon retropictus is a species of freshwater and brackish water snail with an operculum, a nerite. It is an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.
Distribution
This species occurs in Japan:[1] Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku.[2]
Habitat
This nerite lives in brackish water as well as freshwater.[1]
Feeding habits
Clithon retropictus is herbivorous species.[3]
Life cycle
Clithon retropictus is oviparous.[1] Juveniles hatch from eggs in September.[1] The lifespan of Clithon retropictus is up to 12 years and it belongs among the most long-lived of freshwater gastropods.[4]
Clithon retropictus
Parasites
References
- 1 2 3 4 FURUJO Yuki & TOMIYAMA Kiyonori. Distribution and Microhabitat of Coexisting Two Freshwater Snail Species, Semisulcospira libertina (Gould)(Prosobranchia; Pleuroceridae) and Clithon retropictus (Martens) (Prosobranchia: Neritidae). The Japanese journal of malacology. Venus, Vol. 59, No. 3(20000930), pp. 245-260.
- ↑ (Japanese) イシマキガイ Clithon retropictus. accessed 6 January 2011.
- ↑ (Japanese) Ohara T. & Tomiiyama K. (2000). "Niche segregation of coexisting two freshwater snail species, Semisulcospira libertina (Gould) (Prosobranchia: Pleuroceridae) and Clithon retropictus (Martens) (Prosobranchia: Neritidae)". Venus 59(2): 135–147. CiNii.
- ↑ Shigemiya, Y.; Kato, M. (2001). "Age distribution, growth, and lifetime copulation frequency of a freshwater snail, Clithon retropictus (Neritidae)". Population Ecology. 43 (2): 133. doi:10.1007/PL00012024.
- ↑ Kumazawa, N. H.; Kato, E.; Takaba, T.; Yokota, T. (1988). "Survival of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in two gastropod molluscs, Clithon retropictus and Nerita albicilla". Nihon juigaku zasshi. the Japanese journal of veterinary science. 50 (4): 918–924. PMID 3172602.
Further reading
- HIRATA TETSU, UEDA HAJIME, TSUCHIYA YASUTAKA, SATO TOSHIHIKO & NISHIWAKI SABURO. 1999. Distribution of Clithon retropictus(Gastropoda; Neritidae) and environmental conditions in the rivers of Izu Peninsula. Bulletin of the Faculty of Education & Human Sciences, Yamanashi University, Volume 1, number 1, 24-30. (article in Japanese, English abstract)
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