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.

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 (below) and the Spotted Nerite, N. natalensis of eastern and southern Africa.

The Tiger Nerite, also called Orange Track Nerite and Red/Ruby Onion Snail, is a fresh- and brackish water snail native to tidal estuaries and mangrove swamps around Indonesia, particularly Java. It has a reddish or orange coloured shell with black spots or marks in a parallel lines around the shell. It grows to 2.5-3cm long. Larvae survive only in brackish water.