#Neritidae

[rattyexplores]

Guamanian Nerites found in a sandy mangrove environment.

These snails are a common sight for me, and as can be seen in the photos, they come in a variety of colours and patterns.

08/09/23 - Cycloneritida: Clithon oualaniense

QLD:BRB - Bowen, mangrove beach

[coqsenstock]

Nerita sanguinolenta - 13/16 mm, Egypt

[mybeingthere]

The most exquisite stripes on shells belong to the Nerite family.

Neritidae, common name the nerites, is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized saltwater and freshwater snails which have a gill and a distinctive operculum. The family Neritidae includes marine genera such as Nerita, marine and freshwater genera such as Neritina, and freshwater and brackish water genera such as Theodoxus.

The common name "nerite" as well as the family name Neritidae and the genus name Nerita, are derived from the name of Nerites, who was a sea god in Greek mythology.

[daycarefriendpickup]

Well, Well... whale 🐋? If it isn't that time of year!

Hello you lovely ballpit goers! We here at DCFP have been hard at work behind the scenes on events to make sure you have tons of entertainment this mermay to draw with!

Presenting you with... The official Daycare Friend Pickup Mermay Prompt List for 2024!

We've got quite a variety up here for you all to choose and draw from this year! And for us to see it all, you'll have to make sure you tag it as #dcfpmermay or #dcfpmermay2024 !

Here's the prompt list broken down in more order!

Weekly

1. Tardigrade

2. Pinnipeds (Seals, Walruses, Sea Lions etc)

3. Cetaceans (Dolphins, Whales, Orcas, etc)

4. Echinoderms (Starfish, Brittle Stars, Sea Urchins, Sea Urchins, etc)

5. Anthozoa (That's right folks, coral is a sea creature too! Time to pump out the creativity on this week!)

Biweekly Prompts (That means one every half a week!)

•Week One

1. Medusozoa (Jellyfish)

2. Cephalopoda (Octos, Squids, Cuttles, and Nautilus!)

•Week Two

1. Limulidae (Horseshoe Crabs)

2. Nephropidae (Lobster time babes! 🦞)

•Week Three

1. Pantapoda (Sea Spiders) [Istiophoridae AKA Marlins this week if spider things freak you out]

2. Neritidae Aka Freshwater Snails/Nerites [Tetraodontidae AKA Pufferfish if Snails freak you out]

•Week Four

1. Rhincodon (Whale Shark)

2. Carcharhinidae (Requiem Sharks)

•Week Five

1. Muranidae (Moray Eels)

2. Torpediniformes (Electric Rays ⚡)

Bonus week of The Deep

(For if you finished everything else but want to do a little more!)

1. Chaulios (Viperfish)

2. Halosauridae (Halosaurs)

The event will go on from April 28th to June 2nd to give everyone who wants to pump out those mermaid drawings all that extra time to put love and attention into these prompts!

And remember, you do NOT have to do all of them! Just do what you feel comfortable with and draw to your fishy daycare's freedom ❤️.

Get ready folks, because it's going to be a splashing Mermay here at the pickup! 🌊

[biology-geology-beaches-india]

A stark, sterile stretch of still, steaming stone near Bheemili Beach, Visakhapatnam, 2024.

This is one of the fascinating features of this coastline, where one can have literally a mile long stretch of ramparts of rock devoid of all seaweed and periwinkle, of bare, black, brooding, buried boulders, while other stretches of rock are literally festooned and carpeted with gross, glorious, green seaweed, with bushels of brainless brawny barnacles, with knurls of numberless, noiseless neritidae and creeping cohorts of concupiscent camouflaged crabs, we finding fertility alternating with sterility.

[go-rocksquadsfan]

I'm keeping that idea : Nerites in his second transformation somehow being carried away to India and him having the shell pattern of a red racer/gold racer Nerite snail. The name fits, and the shells are absolutely beautiful

First pic from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittina_waigiensis

Second pic from

Maybe him keeping some remains of it after being turned back 🤭 or him having features influencing his shell pattern. Either is good

Nerites getting turned back, but he's in the gulf of Mexico. Or Indonesia

[gordonofellon]

Neritidae - Putzkolone im Aquarium

Die Familie der Neritidae sind Schnecken mit einem unbändigen Hunger auf Algen. Sie sind nicht nur aus diesem Grund in der Aquaristik ausgesprochen beliebt. Ihre natürliche Heimat ist überwiegend in Südostasien. Dort leben sie in Flüssen und meeresnahen Bächen. Der Lebensraum befindet sich überwiegend im Süßwasserbereich, aber auch in Brackwasserzonen und in Flussmündungen kann man die Neritiden vorfinden.

Die Familie der Neritidae sind Schnecken mit einem unbändigen Hunger auf Algen. Sie sind nicht nur aus diesem Grund in der Aquaristik ausgesprochen beliebt. Ihre natürliche Heimat ist überwiegend in Südostasien. Dort leben sie in Flüssen und meeresnahen Bächen. Der Lebensraum befindet sich überwiegend im Süßwasserbereich, aber auch in Brackwasserzonen und in Flussmündungen kann man die Neritidenv…

[theaquaticguy]

Nerite Snail

Nerite snails structure a fundamental piece of an aquarists green growth eating armory. Little and undemanding, they arrive in an enormous scope of shapes, shadings and examples, making them appropriate for pretty much every tank. It's cool that one animal varieties has such a lot of variety! All things considered we've sort of cheated here. Nerite snails are comprised of a wide range of animal groups in the family Neritidae. The most normally kept species come from the Neritina, Clithon and Vittina genera. Together they are altogether called nerite snails in the side interest and are normally discussed together as they have comparative consideration necessities.

A dark and gold Clithon snail laying on top of a piece of driftwood.

An alternate Clithon animal groups eating green growth off a java plant leaf.

How warm do they like it? Nerites appear to endure a serious wide scope of temperatures. They'll be agreeable in water between 22-29C.

How would I keep their shells solid? Likewise with all snails, it's significant they are not kept in acidic water to forestall shell disintegration. They will do well in tanks with pH of something like 7. They additionally incline toward harder water which assists their shells with developing. Assuming your water isn't excessively hard or you have heaps of creatures with calcium necessities, you can add squashed coral or cuttlefish bone as an enhancement.

A zebra nerite (Neritina natalensis) snail with some shell disintegration. The white pitting towards the finish of the shell is demonstrative of disintegration brought about by low pH acidic water.

What number of them would i be able to have? Nerite snails shift in size from tiny species (1cm) to some bigger ones (3cm). Normally the restricting element for keeping nerites isn't the size however the measure of food accessible. The kinds of green growth they like to eat develop on level surfaces like aquarium glass, shakes or leaves of enormous plants. The a greater amount of this you have, the more food there will be to help the snails. For more modest species like horned nerites (Clithon crown) and olive nerites (Neritina reclivata) you'll need to have around 1 nerite per 15 liters however with more surface region you can uphold 1 for every 10 liters. For bigger species like zebra nerites (Neritina natalensis) or tiger nerites (Neritina semiconica) 1 for each 25 liters is better.

Who do they coexist with? These snails are extremely sluggish and quiet and won't trouble other tankmates. Most fish won't trouble them either, even fish known to nip at greater snails like bettas seldom have an issue imparting a tank to nerites. Obviously, you ought to stay away from snail eating species like puffers, loaches, greater cichlids, goldfish and snail eating spineless creatures.

You said they eat green growth. That is extraordinary, I disdain green growth and I have a ton of it! Nerites are extraordinary at cleaning green growth, truly outstanding in the leisure activity at it yet they aren't reasonable for each work. They creep along surfaces gradually utilizing their radula to scratch green growth. This implies they are just fit for eating level sort green growth however are one of only a handful of exceptional choices for handling extremely hard green growth. They'll be incredible at cleaning diatoms (earthy colored green growth), green spot green growth and short hair green growth. Some Clithon species have additionally been known to eat dark facial hair green growth. They're additionally simply ready to eat from level, hard surfaces like aquarium dividers, hardscape and huge plant leaves.

A tiger nerite snail (Neritina semiconica) touching on some green growth becoming on a stone.

Would it be advisable for me to likewise take care of them? Nerite snails are on the whole wild got and sadly seldom acknowledge any food. Now and again zebra nerites may eat cucumber or green growth wafers however it's still really extraordinary. To check whether your nerite is getting sufficient food, you can really take a look at its size foot. An all around took care of nerite ought to have an enormous foot that expands well external the opening. A starved nerite will have a more modest foot that pretty much or doesn't even completely cover their opening.

Is my snail a kid or a young lady… or both? Nerite snails have unmistakable genders yet there's horrible method for distinguishing them. The essential method for knowing is to simply notice a female laying eggs. Their eggs are white, little, hard and oval-formed, looking a lot of like a sesame seed.

Stand by eggs? I would rather not be invaded with snails! Relax, one reason nerites are so well known is on the grounds that they can't repeat in our freshwater tanks! Those 'eggs' you see are really a container that holds the eggs inside - the genuine eggs are infinitesimal. In nature, when they are presented to salty water, the eggs incubate into planktonic hatchlings which float out to the ocean. They live there benefiting from phytoplankton while carrying on with a few life stages. At last they track down their direction back to salty water and transform into an adolescent snail. Obviously, this is for all intents and purposes difficult to reproduce in bondage.

[rattyexplores]

06/11/22 Photos 1-2 - N. histrio

15/06/22 Photos 3-4 - N. polita

09/12/22 Photos 5-6 - N. undata

05/10/22 Photos 7-8 - N. costata

09/12/22 Photos 9-10 - N. plicata

05/10/22 Photos 11-12 - N. albicilla

06/11/22 - Photos 13-14 - N. erythrostoma

25/10/23 - Photos 15-16 - N. chamaeleon

The variety of Nerita snails I've photographed since 2021!

15/06/22-25/10/23 - Nerita spp.

QLD:WET

[coqsenstock]

Neritina latissima - 34,5 mm, Panama

[eurekamag--com]

Studies on the migratory direction of clithon retropictus prosobranchia neritidae by marking and recapture method

http://dlvr.it/NdkzJL

[mondaymorgue]

Black-mouth Nerite (Neritina cornucopia) Kranji, 13th January 2014

A Preliminary Checklist of the Molluscs of Singapore

Wild Fact Sheets

Taxonomy and Distribution of the Neritidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Singapore

Neritopsine LifeDesk

[rattyexplores]

Collection of Nerite Snails

These images do not represent the listed species entirely. The snail shells come in a variety of colors between specimens.

It’s best to have a snail expert identify these ones.

Nerita histrio, “Maru-Amaobune“

Nerita chamaeleon, “Chamaeleon Nerite”

Nerita costata, “Costate Nerite”

Nerita albicilla, “Blotched Nerite”

Nerita erythrostoma

15/06/22 - 05/10/22

[coqsenstock]

Neripteron taitense - 19 mm, French Polynesia

[daycarefriendpickup]

It's timey time It's time for this week's second biweekly announcement! It happens so soon, my goodness! Give a nice freshwater current welcome to the second biweekly off... Neritidae! (Freshwater Snails!) But don't fret if Snails ick you out ❤️ The alt for this biweekly is... Tetraodontidae! (Pufferfish! 🐡 Look at that spikey boy!)

Well, Well... whale 🐋? If it isn't that time of year!

Hello you lovely ballpit goers! We here at DCFP have been hard at work behind the scenes on events to make sure you have tons of entertainment this mermay to draw with!

Presenting you with... The official Daycare Friend Pickup Mermay Prompt List for 2024!

We've got quite a variety up here for you all to choose and draw from this year! And for us to see it all, you'll have to make sure you tag it as #dcfpmermay or #dcfpmermay2024 !

Here's the prompt list broken down in more order!

Weekly

1. Tardigrade

2. Pinnipeds (Seals, Walruses, Sea Lions etc)

3. Cetaceans (Dolphins, Whales, Orcas, etc)

4. Echinoderms (Starfish, Brittle Stars, Sea Urchins, Sea Urchins, etc)

5. Anthozoa (That's right folks, coral is a sea creature too! Time to pump out the creativity on this week!)

Biweekly Prompts (That means one every half a week!)

•Week One

1. Medusozoa (Jellyfish)

2. Cephalopoda (Octos, Squids, Cuttles, and Nautilus!)

•Week Two

1. Limulidae (Horseshoe Crabs)

2. Nephropidae (Lobster time babes! 🦞)

•Week Three

1. Pantapoda (Sea Spiders) [Istiophoridae AKA Marlins this week if spider things freak you out]

2. Neritidae Aka Freshwater Snails/Nerites [Tetraodontidae AKA Pufferfish if Snails freak you out]

•Week Four

1. Rhincodon (Whale Shark)

2. Carcharhinidae (Requiem Sharks)

•Week Five

1. Muranidae (Moray Eels)

2. Torpediniformes (Electric Rays ⚡)

Bonus week of The Deep

(For if you finished everything else but want to do a little more!)

1. Chaulios (Viperfish)

2. Halosauridae (Halosaurs)

The event will go on from April 28th to June 2nd to give everyone who wants to pump out those mermaid drawings all that extra time to put love and attention into these prompts!

And remember, you do NOT have to do all of them! Just do what you feel comfortable with and draw to your fishy daycare's freedom ❤️.

Get ready folks, because it's going to be a splashing Mermay here at the pickup! 🌊

[biology-geology-beaches-india]

Aphorism 100. The Philosophy of Tropical Littorals and Seashores. Satyendra Sunkavally.