Natica simplex
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Naticidae |
Genus: | Natica |
Species: | N. simplex
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Binomial name | |
Natica simplex G. B. Sowerby III, 1897[1]
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Natica simplex is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.[2]
Description
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Distribution
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References
[edit]- ^ Sowerby, G. B. (1897). Appendix to Marine Shells of South Africa. London: Sowerby. p. 12.
; [ Pl. 6], Fig. 18
- ^ a b Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2017). "Natica simplex G. B. Sowerby III, 1897". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
Further reading
[edit]- MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp.
- Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector’s Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp. page(s): 50
- Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.
- Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011) Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls.