Neripteron cornucopia
species of mollusc
Neripteron cornucopia is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.
Distribution
Distribution of Neripteron cornucopia include Odisha state and West Bengal in India, Myanmar, Vietnam, Mai Po Marshes Nature reserve in Hong Kong, Singapore Jambi province in Indonesia, and Japan. Records from Japan were incorrectly identified as Neripteron violaceum prior to 1997.
The type locality is "Hugli estuary at Fort William and Tolly’s Nullah", now in Kolkata. William Thomas Blanford also reported this species from Irrawaddy River delta from Bago, Myanmar in 1867. It was rediscovered from India after 180 years in 2017.
Description
Neripteron cornucopia was originally described under the name Neritina cornucopia by William Henry Benson in 1836. Benson's original text (the type description) in Latin and English reads as follows:
Neritina cornucopia. Testâ solidiusculâ, convolutâ, subsymetricâ,
transversèe ovato-acutâ, gibbosâ, pallide virente, punctis minimis
nigris, interdum confluentibus, lineis longitudinalibus dispositis
ornatâ; sporâ valdè depressâ; anfractu pone callum compresso,
sub-mediano, minimè obliquo; peritremate acuto, libero, ovato, pene
totam testam circumcludente; callo magno ingrescente; aperturâ
lunatâ mediocri; labio recto totâ longitudine denticulato, medio
emarginato.
Greatest transverse breadth 0.7 inch.
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