Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Neritimorpha > Order Cycloneritida > Superfamily Neritoidea > Family Neritidae > Subfamily Neritininae > Genus Theodoxus

Theodoxus fluviatilis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Nerita Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Theodoxus*	Montfort, 1810	accepted genus name
*Neritoglobus*	Kobelt, 1871	generic synonym
*Theodoxus (Theodoxus)*	Montfort, 1810	synonym

Species group names

*Theodoxus (Theodoxus) fluviatilis*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym; alternate representation

Children

Theodoxus (Theodoxus) fluviatilis fluviatilis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Theodoxus (Theodoxus) fluviatilis sardous (Menke, 1830)
Theodoxus (Theodoxus) fluviatilis subthermalis Issel, 1865
Theodoxus (Theodoxus) fluviatilis thermalis (Dupuy, 1851)
Theodoxus (Theodoxus) fluviatilis transversetaeniatus A.J. Wagner, 1928

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: flodnerit sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: gewone zoetwaterneriet; zoetwaterneriet sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: common freshwater nerite; Freshwater Nerite; river nerite; the nerite sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;Charles Hussey

German: Fluss-Schwimmschnecke; Gemeine Kahnschnecke sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Polish: rozdepka rzeczna sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: båtsnäcka

Literature

basis of record	Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
additional source	Issel, A. (1865). Catalogo dei molluschi raccolti dalla missione italiana in Persia aggiuntavi la descrizione delle specie nuove o poco note. Stamperia Reale, Torino, 55 pp, pls 1-3.
additional source	Martínez-Ortí, A.; Osca, D. (2023). Contribution to the taxonomic study of Theodoxus Montfort, 1810 (Mollusca, Gastropoda: Neritidae) from the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands. Zoolentia. 3: 1-17.
ecology source	Zettler, M. L.; Frankowski, J.; Bochert, R.; Röhner, M. (2004). Morphological and ecological features of Theodoxus fluviatilis (Linnaeus, 1758) from Baltic brackish water and German freshwater populations. Journal of Conchology. 38(3): 303-316.
identification resource	Rowson, B., Powell, H., Willing, M., Dobson, M. & Shaw, H. (2021). Freshwater Snails of Britain and Ireland. FSC Publications, Telford, UK.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Theodoxus fluviatilis (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153558