Natica

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Genus of gastropods

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::summary Genus of gastropods ::

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  • 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.

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

Description

The shell is subglobose or obovate, rarely somewhat depressed. The spire is short. The body whorl is enlarged. The aperture is entire, semicircular, with an oblique, edentate, callous columellar side. The prominent umbilicus is deep, often wide, well separated between the contracted columellar margin and the spiral, often thickened base of the columella. A small pit near the callosity is almost distinct.

The peristome is sharp, smooth on the interior. The large operculum is calcareous, fully attached to the surface, sometimes sculpted with ridges, sometimes flattened, with the spiral located anteriorly and internally.

Species

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

Synonyms

References

  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . 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.

References

  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. [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=91873 Fossilworks]
  4. (1834). "Observations on Naticina and Dentalium, two genera of molluscous animals.". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.
  5. [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxlist WoRMS: Natica]
  6. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260868946_Cenozoic_Ampullinidae_and_Naticidae_Mollusca_Gastropoda_from_Patagonia_Argentina 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]

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