Natica


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.

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 includes the following species with accepted names in the genus Natica Natica acinonyx Marche Marchad, 1957Natica adansoni Blainville, 1825Natica agulhasensis Thiele, 1925Natica albospira E. A. Smith, 1895Natica anosyensis Bozzetti, 2010Natica apertissima E. A. Smith, 1906Natica arachnoidea Natica bibalteata G. B. Sowerby III, 1914Natica bouvieri Jousseaume, 1883Natica broderipiana Récluz, 1844Natica brunneolinea McLean, 1970Natica buriasiensis Récluz, 1844Natica cabrerai Kase & Shigeta, 2000Natica canariensis Odhner, 1932Natica candidula E. A. Smith, 1895Natica caneloensis Hertlein & Strong, 1955Natica castrensis Natica colima Strong & Hertlein, 1937Natica collaria Natica concavoperculata Liu, 1977Natica couteaudi Rochebrune & Mabille, 1885Natica crassoperculata X. Liu, 1977Natica crispata Thiele, 1925
;Taxon inquirendumNatica gracilis Récluz, 1850Natica moquiniana Récluz, 1853Natica perscalpta Martens, 1878Natica swainsoni Philippi, 1851

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