Natica

Natica
Temporal range: Eocene - Recent
Several views of a shell of Natica arachnoidea
A shell of Natica limbata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Naticoidea
Family: Naticidae
Genus: 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

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]

  • Natica acinonyx Marche Marchad, 1957
  • Natica adansoni Blainville, 1825
  • Natica albifasciata Liu, 1977
  • Natica anosyensis Bozzetti, 2010
  • Natica arachnoidea (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Natica bibalteata G.B. Sowerby III, 1914
  • Natica broderipiana Récluz, 1844
  • Natica brunneolinea McLean, 1970
  • Natica buriasiensis Récluz, 1844
  • Natica cabrerai Kase & Shigeta, 2000
  • Natica canariensis Odhner, 1932
  • Natica candidula E. A. Smith, 1895
  • Natica caneloensis Hertlein & Strong, 1955
  • Natica castrensis (Dall, 1889)
  • Natica chemnitzii L. Pfeiffer, 1840
  • Natica cincta Récluz, 1850
  • Natica colima Strong & Hertlein, 1937
  • Natica collaria (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Natica concavoperculata Liu, 1977
  • Natica couteaudi Rochebrune & Mabille, 1885
  • Natica dimidiata E. A. Smith, 1906
  • Natica dixoni Fernandes & Rolán, 1992
  • Natica donghaiensis Ma & Zhang, 1994
  • Natica fasciata (Röding, 1798)
  • Natica forata Reeve, 1855
  • Natica fulgurans Récluz, 1844
  • Natica fulminea Gmelin, 1791
  • Natica furva Watson, 1897
  • Natica grayi Philippi, 1852
  • Natica gruveli Dautzenberg, 1910
  • Natica hannanensis Liu, 1977
  • Natica idiopoma Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932
  • Natica inexpectans Olsson, 1971
  • Natica juani Costa & Pastorino, 2012
  • Natica jukyriuva Simone, 2014
  • Natica kawamurai Sakurai, 1983
  • Natica koperbergae van der Bijl & Moolenbeek, 2009
  • Natica lacteobasis Kuroda, 1961
  • Natica larvaroni P. Bernard, 1983
  • Natica limbata d'Orbigny, 1837
  • Natica livida Pfeiffer, 1840
  • Natica luculenta Iredale, 1929
  • Natica lunaris (Berry, 1964)
  • Natica maculosa Lamarck, 1822
  • Natica marchadi Pin, 1992
  • Natica marochiensis (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Natica melanoperculata Liu, 1977
  • Natica menkeana Philippi, 1851
  • Natica michaelis Fischer-Piette, 1942
  • Natica monodi Marche-Marchad, 1957
  • Natica multipunctata Blainville, 1825
  • Natica nipponensis Kuroda, 1961
  • Natica oteroi (Fernandes & Rolán, 1991)
  • Natica othello Dall, 1908
  • Natica pavimentum Récluz, 1844
  • Natica perlineata Dall, 1889
  • Natica picta Recluz, 1843
  • Natica pluvialis (Kurono, 1999)
  • Natica prietoi (Hidalgo, 1873)
  • Natica pseustes Watson, 1881
  • Natica pygmaea Philippi, 1842
  • Natica queketti Sowerby III, 1894
  • Natica rocquignyi Fischer-Piette, 1942
  • Natica rouxi Nicklès, 1952
  • Natica royi Pin, 1992
  • Natica rubromaculata E. A. Smith, 1872
  • Natica ryalli Fernandes & Rolán, 1992
  • Natica saitoi Kuroda & Habe, 1971
  • Natica sanctaehelenae E. A. Smith, 1890
  • Natica sandwichensis (Dall, 1895)
  • Natica scethra Dall, 1908
  • Natica schepmani Thiele, 1925
  • Natica scopaespira Liu, 1977
  • Natica seychellium Watson R.B., 1886
  • Natica sigillata McLean, 1970
  • Natica simplex Sowerby, 1897
  • Natica sinensis Ma & Zhang, 1993
  • Natica spadicea (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Natica spadiceoides Liu, 1977
  • Natica stellata Hedley, 1913
  • Natica stenopa Woodring, 1957
  • Natica stercusmuscarum (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Natica subpallescens Strebel, 1908
  • Natica tedbayeri Rehder, 1986
  • Natica trailli Reeve, 1835
  • Natica turtoni E. A. Smith, 1890
  • Natica unibalteata Liu, 1977
  • Natica unifasciata Lamarck, 1822
  • Natica vitellus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Natica vittata (Gmelin, 1791)

Synonyms

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 2 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

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