Clithon corona

Clithon corona is a species of brackish water and freshwater snail with an operculum, a nerite. It is an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.[3][4][5]

Clithon corona
Clithon corona from the Philippines
Clithon corona shell. Scale bar is 10 mm.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Family: Neritidae
Genus: Clithon
Species:
C. corona
Binomial name
Clithon corona
Synonyms[2]

Clithon variabilis Lesson, 1831
Nerita cardinalis Le Guillou, 1841 (invalid: junior homonym of Nerita cardinalis Röding, 1798)
Nerita corona Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)
Nerita keraudrenii Le Guillou, 1841
Nerita montacuti Récluz, 1843
Nerita montaguana Récluz, 1850
Nerita obscurata Récluz, 1842
Nerita recluziana Le Guillou, 1841
Neritina aspera Philippi, 1845
Neritina brevispina Lamarck, 1822
Neritina coronoides Lesson, 1831
Neritina corrugata Hombron & Jacquinot, 1848
Neritina deltoidea Mousson, 1870
Neritina discors Martens, 1878
Neritina flexuosa Hombron & Jacquinot, 1848
Neritina hapa Hombron & Jacquinot, 1848
Neritina monilifera Martens, 1878
Neritina musiva Hombron & Jacquinot, 1848
Neritina paya Gassies, 1858
Neritina rhitidophora Tapparone Canefri, 1893
Neritina ruida Mousson, 1857
Neritina subrugata Baird, 1873
Neritina unidentata Récluz, 1850
Neritina vitiana Mousson, 1870

Description
Abapertural view of Clithon corona shell.

Distribution

Native to the Western Pacific, from the Philippines to Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Samoa, Taiwan, and the Okinawa and Ryukyu Islands of Japan.[3][4][5]

Ecology

The freshwater crab Clibanarius fonticola uses shells of Clithon corona only.[5]

Human use

It is a part of ornamental pet trade for freshwater aquaria.[6]

References
  1. Köhler, F. (2011). "Clithon corona". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T189626A8757261. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T189626A8757261.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2016). Clithon corona. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737510 on 2017-11-27
  3. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Clithon corona (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737510 on 2021-09-28
  4. "Clithon corona (Linnaeus, 1758)". SeaLifeBase. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  5. Patsy A. McLaughlin & Talbot Murray (1990). "Clibanarius fonticola, new species (Anomura: Paguridea: Diogenidae), from a fresh-water pool on Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 10 (4): 695–702. doi:10.2307/1548413. JSTOR 1548413.
  6. Ng, T. H., Tan, S. K., Wong, W. H., Meier, R., Chan, S. Y., Tan, H. H., & Yeo, D. C. (2016). "Molluscs for sale: assessment of freshwater gastropods and bivalves in the ornamental pet trade". PLoS ONE 11(8): e0161130. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0161130
  • Récluz, C., 1841. Description de quelques espèces de nérites vivantes (2 partie, suit et fin),. Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne: 337-343
  • Le Guillou, E.J.F., 1841. Description de quatorze Nérites nouvelles. Revue Zoologique, par la Société Cuvierienne; …: 343-347. Paris.
  • Haynes, A. 2005. An evaluation of members of the genera Clithon Montfort, 1810 and Neritina Lamarck 1816 (Gastropoda: Neritidae). Molluscan Research 25(2): 75-84
  • Eichhorst T.E. (2016). Neritidae of the world. Volume 1. Harxheim: Conchbooks. 695 pp.

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