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Definition of Nerites
1. nerite [n] - See also: nerite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nerites
Literary usage of Nerites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bibliographia Zoologiæ Et Geologiæ: A General Catalogue of All Books, Tracts by Louis Agassiz (1854)
"Description de quelques nouvelles especes de nerites vivantes.— Rev. Zool.
1841, pp. ... On new species of nerites from the Philippine Islands.— Proc. Zool. ..."
2. Elements of conchology by Lovell Reeve (1860)
"The chief conchological distinction between the genera Nerita and Natica is, that
whilst the nerites are mostly strongly grooved and otherwise sculptured, ..."
3. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and by William Nicholson (1821)
"Lamarck has retained in this genus only the im- perforated nerites; the others he
... The nerites have not only no umbilicus, but no true colu- mella, ..."
4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1855)
"... might be considered as the carboniferous type of the ancient nerites, and be
designated nerites carbonarius. nerites carbonarius (Harkness), Plate V. ..."
5. Contributions to the Tertiary Fauna of Florida: With Special Reference to by William Healey Dall (1890)
"One of these cases is Vivipara fasciata, of which Martini says in the text,
speaking of the group of nerites under which five genera are assembled : " All ..."
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