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Lined Nerite
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Lined Nerite

Nerita balteata

Nerita balteata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae.

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Range & habitat

Mangrove forests. This species can be used as bioindicator of heavy metals in its environment, because it accumulates cadmium, nickel and lead in its shell and copper, zinc and iron in its soft tissues.

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 538768.