A minute globose shell with a bluntly angled periphery. This species is much smaller in size compared to the any of the Australian freshwater Neritidae.
Neritilia vulgaris Kano & Kase, 2003
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Neritimorpha
Order Neritopsida
Suborder Helicinina
Superfamily Neritilioidea
Family Neritiliidae
Genus Neritilia Martens, 1875 (type species: Neritina rubida Pease, 1865) (Synonyms Calceolina A. Adams, 1863 (preocc.), Calceolata Iredale, 1918).
Original name: Neritilia vulgaris Kano & Kase, 2003. In Kano Y. & Kase T. (2003). Systematics of the Neritilia rubida complex (Gastropoda: Neritiliidae): three amphidromous species with overlapping distributions in the Indo-Pacific. Journal of Molluscan Studies 69: 273-284.
Type locality: Unnamed stream south of Sonai, Irimote Island, Yaeyama Islands, Okinawa, Japan.
Freshwater streams and rivers close to the sea reaching into brackish water. In Australia this species has been found on mud and leaves in shallow water in Bamboo Creek junction with Daly River, Northern Territory. As with other neritids, egg capsules are small, oval and white. Larvae pelagic.
Tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific rivers and streams. In Australia, this species has so far only been found in the Northern Territory.
Kano, Y. (2019). Neritiliidae Schepman, 1908. Pp. 27-30 in C. Lydeard & Cummings, K. S. Freshwater Mollusks of the World: a Distribution Atlas. Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press.
Kano, Y. & Kase, T. (2003). Systematics of the Neritilia rubida complex (Gastropoda: Neritiliidae): three amphidromous species with overlapping distributions in the Indo-Pacific. Journal of Molluscan Studies 69: 273-284.
Willan, E. C. & Kessner, V. (2021). A conspectus of the freshwater molluscs of the Daly River catchment, Northern Territory. Northern Territory Naturalist 30: 108-137.
