Natica

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Natica
Temporal range: Eocene - Recent
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Several views of a shell of Natica arachnoidea
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A shell of Natica limbata
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Natica

Scopoli, 1777
Type species
Natica vitellus vitellus Linnaeus, C., 1758
Synonyms[1]
  • Albula Röding, 1798 (Invalid: junior homonym of Albula Osbeck, 1762 [Pisces])
  • Cochlis Röding, 1798
  • Glyphepithema Rehder, 1943
  • Nacca Risso, 1826
  • Natica (Nacca) Risso, 1826
  • Natica (Natica) Scopoli, 1777 · accepted, alternate representation

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Natica is a genus of small to medium-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropods in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.[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

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

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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

  1. 1.0 1.1 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
  • 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

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