Zebra Nerite Neritina/(Vittina) turrita

Zebra Nerite Snail
Zebra Nerite Snail
Zebra Nerite Snail
The Zebra Nerite, also called the Turreted Nerite, is a fresh- and brackish water snail native to tidal estuaries and mangrove swamps of the Indo-westPacific including Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Japan and Vietnam. It has a gold-coloured shell with black stripes of varying width, some very narrow, some quite wide bands. It grows to 2.5cm long, lives on hard substrate or rock (doesn't burrow) and rasps algae from rocks. Larvae survive only in brackish water.
Zebra and Tiger Nerite Snails Tiger (left) and Zebra Nerites.
Zebra Nerite Snail with Auger Zebra Nerite with Auger Snail.
Zebra Nerite Snail with Mangrove Red Claw Crab Zebra Nerite with Mangrove Crab (Pseudosesarma moeschi).
The Zebra Nerite, N./V. turrita, is sometimes confused with the nerite N./V. coromandeliana of Indonesia and the Philippines and with the Tiger Nerite of the same region, also called Orange Track Nerite and Ruby Onion Snail N./V. semiconica and the Spotted Nerite, N. natalensis of eastern and southern Africa.