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Definition of Neritina
1. Noun. Ornately marked and brightly colored snails of brackish waters.
Definition of Neritina
1. n. A genus including numerous species of shells resembling Nerita in form. They mostly inhabit brackish water, and are often delicately tinted.
Medical Definition of Neritina
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Neritina
Literary usage of Neritina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Marine Polyzoa in the Collection of the British Museum by George Busk (1852)
"Bugula neritina, Gray, List of Brit. Rad. 114. Hab. Britain (Scarborough, Bean).
New Zealand ! Hooker, Darwin, Lyall. Auckland Islands ! Hooker. ..."
2. Animal Life as Affected by the Natural Conditions of Existence by Carl Semper (1881)
"It agrees too in structure with that of neritina, but it is much smaller than
the mouth of the shell (fig. 61), and the little hook which serves to attach ..."
3. The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain: Or Coloured Figures and by James Sowerby (1825)
"It is only known in a fossil state, among the organized remains of a former Ocean,
thus differing in situation from the neritina; above alluded to. ..."
4. Fauna Hawaiiensis: Being the Land-fauna of the Hawaiian Islands by David Sharp, Royal Society (Great Britain), Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Royal Society (Great Britain (1900)
"neritina Lamarck. I have not seen the first Edition of the ' Philosophic
Zoologique' (1809) in which this genus is said to occur, but in the second edition ..."
5. The Solomon Islands and Their Natives by Henry Brougham Guppy (1887)
"(54) neritina adumbrata (Reeve) Hab. A stream iu Choiseul Bay, and the rocky ...
(57) neritina olivacea (Le Guillen) Hab. Streams in Treasury Island and at ..."
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