# Vittina

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{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|taxon = Vittina
|image = Vittina coromandeliana shell.png
|image_caption = Apertural view of a shell of ''[Vittina coromandeliana](/source/Vittina_coromandeliana)''. Scale bar is 10 mm.
|authority = [H. B. Baker](/source/Horace_Burrington_Baker), 1923<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Baker |first1=H. B. |author-link1=Horace Burrington Baker |title=Notes on the Radula of the Neritidae. |journal= [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia](/source/Proceedings_of_the_Academy_of_Natural_Sciences_of_Philadelphia) |date=1923 |volume=75 |issue=117-178, plates 9-16 |page=144|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/4063879}}</ref>
|type_species= ''Nerita roissyana'' <small>Récluz, 1841</small> 
|synonyms= 
* ''Nerita (Paranerita)'' <small>Bourne, 1908</small> (Invalid: junior homonym of ''Paranerita'' <small>Hampson, 1901</small> [Lepidoptera])
* ''Neritina (Vittina)'' <small>H. B. Baker, 1923</small> (original rank)
* ''Neritina (Vittoida)'' <small>H.B. Baker, 1923</small> (a junior synonym)
* ''Paranerita'' <small>Bourne, 1908</small> (Invalid: junior homonym of ''Paranerita'' <small>Hampson, 1901</small> [Lepidoptera])
|display_parents= 3
}}

'''''Vittina''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of brackish water and [freshwater snail](/source/freshwater_snail)s with an [operculum](/source/Operculum_(gastropod)), aquatic [gastropod](/source/gastropod) [mollusk](/source/mollusk)s in the subfamily [Neritininae](/source/Neritininae)  of the family [Neritidae](/source/Neritidae), the nerites.<ref name="WoRMS 2014">Sartori, André F. (2014). ''Vittina'' H. B. Baker, 1924. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818773 on 2017-12-30</ref>

''Vittina'' was previously recognized as a subgenus of the genus ''[Neritina](/source/Neritina)''.

==Distribution==
Species of this genus are found estuarine and fluviatile in the Indo-Pacific.

== Species ==
Species in the genus ''Vittina'' include:
* ''[Vittina adumbrata](/source/Vittina_adumbrata)'' <small>(Reeve, 1856)</small>
* ''[Vittina aquatilis](/source/Vittina_aquatilis)'' <small>(Reeve, 1856)</small>
* ''[Vittina coromandeliana](/source/Vittina_coromandeliana)'' <small>(G. B. Sowerby I, 1836)</small><ref name="WoRMS 2014"/>
* ''[Vittina cumingiana](/source/Vittina_cumingiana)'' <small>(Récluz, 1842)</small><ref name="WoRMS 2014"/>
* ''[Vittina gagates](/source/Vittina_gagates)'' <small>(Lamarck, 1822)</small>
* ''[Vittina jovis](/source/Vittina_jovis)'' <small>(Récluz, 1843)</small><ref name="WoRMS 2014"/>
* ''[Vittina natalensis](/source/Vittina_natalensis)'' <small>(Reeve, 1855)</small>
* ''[Vittina pennata](/source/Vittina_pennata)'' <small>(Born, 1778)</small>
* ''[Vittina plumbea](/source/Vittina_plumbea)'' <small>(G.W. Sowerby II, 1849)</small>
* † ''[Vittina pomahakaensis](/source/Vittina_pomahakaensis)'' <small>(Finlay, 1924)</small><ref name="WoRMS 2014"/>
* ''[Vittina pouchetii](/source/Vittina_pouchetii)'' <small>(Hombron & Jacquinot, 1848)</small>
* ''[Vittina roissyana](/source/Vittina_roissyana)'' <small>(Récluz, 1841)</small><ref name="WoRMS 2014"/>
* ''[Vittina semiconica](/source/Vittina_semiconica)'' <small>(Lamarck, 1822)</small>
* ''[Vittina serrulata](/source/Vittina_serrulata)'' <small>(Récluz, 1842)</small>
* ''[Vittina smithii](/source/Vittina_smithii)'' <small>(W. Wood, 1828)</small>
* ''[Vittina solium](/source/Vittina_solium)'' <small>(Récluz, 1846)</small>
* ''[Vittina turrita](/source/Vittina_turrita)'' <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
* ''[Vittina turtoni](/source/Vittina_turtoni)'' <small>(Récluz, 1843)</small>
* ''[Vittina variegata](/source/Vittina_variegata)'' <small>(Lesson, 1831)</small><ref name="WoRMS 2014"/>
* ''[Vittina waigiensis](/source/Vittina_waigiensis)'' <small>(Lesson, 1831)</small><ref name="WoRMS 2014"/>
* ''[Vittina wallisiarum](/source/Vittina_wallisiarum)'' <small>(Récluz, 1850)</small><ref name="WoRMS 2014"/>

;''[Taxon inquirendum](/source/Species_inquirenda)''
* ''Vittina striolata'' <small>(Récluz, 1841)</small>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Vittina}}
* [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31939060 Bourne G.C. (1909). Contributions to the morphology of the group Neritacea of aspidobranch gastropods. Part I. The Neritidae. ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'' for 1908. 810–887]

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Category:Neritidae
Category:Taxa named by Horace Burrington Baker

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