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Clypeolum owenianum
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Neritimorpha
Order:	Cycloneritida
Family:	Neritidae
Genus:	Clypeolum
Species:	C. owenianum
Binomial name
Clypeolum owenianum (Wood, 1828)
Synonyms
Nerita oweniana Wood, 1828 Neritina oweniana (W. Wood, 1828) Neritina tiassalensis E. Binder, 1956

Clypeolum owenianum is a species of small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

Distribution

This species is found in Africa: in Angola, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, and Nigeria.

Habitat

This small nerite lives in rivers.

References

1. Van Damme, D. (2020). "Clypeolum owenianum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T158567718A151143287. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T158567718A151143287.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Clypeolum owenianum (W. Wood, 1828). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=873784 on 2021-09-26

• Eichhorst T.E. (2016). Neritidae of the world. Volume 1. Harxheim: Conchbooks. 695 pp

External links

• Wood, W. (1828). Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign. Richard Taylor, London. Iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8
• Binder E. (1955). Mollusques nouveaux de Côte d'Ivoire. Prosobranches d'eau douce. Revue Suisse de Zoologie. 62:73–82.

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• IUCN Red List least concern species
• Neritidae
• Gastropods of Africa
• Gastropods described in 1828
• Invertebrates of Equatorial Guinea
• Freshwater snails
• Neritidae stubs