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