Nerita versicolor (four-toothed nerite snails) in a rocky shore intertidal zone (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 2 (15393309504)
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Description: Nerita versicolor Gmelin, 1791 - four-toothed nerite snails in a rocky shore intertidal zone. These nerite snails are on an epikarstified aragonitic limestone surface in the intertidal zone. They are grazing on algal/bacterial films by scraping the rocks with their radulae. The limestone rocks are cross-bedded, aragonitic, calcarenitic eolianites, formed in a terrestrial, near-shore, wind-dominated, sand dune environment. Stratigraphy: North Point Member, Rice Bay Formation, middle Holocene, ~5300 years old Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Gastropoda, Neritidae Locality: western rocky shoreline of North Point Peninsula, eastern margin of Graham's Harbour, northeastern San Salvador Island, eastern Bahamas. Date: 12 June 2008, 17:01. Source: Nerita versicolor (four-toothed nerite snails) in a rocky shore intertidal zone (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 2. Author: James St. John.
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- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
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- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Spiralia (spiralians)
- Mollusca (molluscs)
- Gastropoda (snails)
- Neritimorpha
- Cycloneritida
- Neritoidea
- Neritidae (nerites)
- Neritinae
- Nerita
- Nerita versicolor (four-tooth nerite)
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