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Ornately marked and brightly colored snails of brackish waters
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neritina
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n. ornately marked and brightly colored snails of brackish waters
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Neritina \Ner`i*ti"na\, prop. n. (Zo["o]l.) A genus including numerous species of shells resembling Nerita in form. They mostly inhabit brackish water, and are often delicately tinted.
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Neritina is a genus of small aquatic snails with an operculum , marine , brackish water , and sometimes freshwater gastropod mollusks in the family Neritidae , the nerites. Neritina is the type genus of the tribe Neritinini.