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Natica

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Natica
Temporal range: Eocene - Recent
Several views of a shell of Natica arachnoidea
A shell of Natica limbata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Naticidae
Subfamily: Naticinae
Genus: Natica
Scopoli, 1777
Type species
Natica vitellus vitellus Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[1]
  • Glyphepithema Rehder, 1943
  • Lunaia S. S. Berry, 1964
  • Nacca Risso, 1826
  • Natica (Mamilla) Fabricius, 1823
  • Natica (Nacca) Risso, 1826
  • Natica (Natica) Scopoli, 1777 accepted, alternate representation

Natica is a genus of small to medium-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropods in the subfamily Naticinae of the family Naticidae, the moon snails. The genus was erected by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1777.[1]

The genus is known from the Eocene to the Recent periods (age range: 37.2 to 0.012 million years ago).[2][3]

Species

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The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) includes the following species with accepted names in the genus Natica [4]

Taxon inquirendum

Synonyms

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List of synonyms of the genus Natica
50 second video of snails (most likely Natica chemnitzi and Cerithium stercusmuscaram) feeding on the sea floor in the Gulf of California, Puerto Peñasco, Mexico

References

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  1. ^ a b Gofas, S. (2011). Natica Scopoli, 1777. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138240 on 14 April 2011
  2. ^ (in Czech) Pek I., Vašíček Z., Roček Z., Hajn. V. & Mikuláš R.: Základy zoopaleontologie. - Olomouc, 1996. 264 pp., ISBN 80-7067-599-3
  3. ^ Fossilworks
  4. ^ WoRMS: Natica
  5. ^ Cenozoic Ampullinidae and Naticidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from Patagonia, Argentina; Miguel Griffin & Guido Pastorino: Cenozoic Ampullinidae and Naticidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from Patagonia, Argentina; 2013 Journal of Paleontology 87(3):502-525
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
  • Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda
  • Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011). Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum. 7: 133 15 pp., 4 pls.
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