Definition of Neritidae

1. Noun. Neritids.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Neritidae

Neptune
Neptune's girdle
Neptunian
Neptunians
Neptunism
Neptunist
Neptunists
Nera
Nerdic
Nereid
Neretva
Nereus
Nergal
Neri's sign
Nerita peloronta
Neritidae (current term)
Nerium
Nerium oleander
Nernst
Nernst's equation
Nernst's theory
Nernst equation
Nernst lamp
Nernst lamps
Nernst potential
Nero's crown
Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus
Nerodia
Nerodia sipedon
Neronian

Literary usage of Neritidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report on the Turton Collection of South African Marine Mollusks: With by Paul Bartsch (1915)
"No. 1426). It has one and one-fourth postnuclear whorls, and measures: Altitude, 0.6 mm.; greater diameter, 1 mm. Family Neritidae. Genus NERITA Lamarck. ..."

2. Zoology: Being a Systematic Account of the General Structure, Habits by William Benjamin Carpenter, William Sweetland Dallas (1867)
"Most of the Neritidae are marine, and they are almost confined to tropical ... or Top-shells, are nearly allied to the Neritidae, but differ from them in ..."

3. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1895)
"The fresh-water Mollusca (omitting the Neritidae) are: Mauritius 9 species, Bourbon 5, Rodriguez 4, Seychelles 6, with only 15 species in all. ..."

4. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1906)
"... including the Neritidae and allied families. These two kidneys open one on each side of the anus, but they do not retain their primitive symmetry in any ..."

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