Lined Nerite

Nerita balteata

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe
• IUCN status: LC

A round shelled nerite of warm shores, it clings to boulders and climbs among mangrove roots, equally at home down on the rocks and up in the branches. A thick trapdoor lets it seal in moisture through the hours the tide leaves it exposed.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Cycloneritida › Neritidae › Nerita

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 549379.