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Natica marochiensis
Shell of Natica marochiensis (syntype at MNHN. Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Naticidae
Genus:	Natica
Species:	N. marochiensis
Binomial name
Natica marochiensis (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms
Natica lemniscata Philippi, 1852 Natica limacina Jousseaume, 1874 Natica lurida Philippi, 1836 Natica maroccana (Chemnitz, 1781) (unavailable name, originally published in a work rejected under ICZN Direction 1) Naticarius marochiensis (Gmelin, 1791) Nerita maroccana Chemnitz, 1781 (unavailable name, published in a work rejected under ICZN Direction 1; available from Gmelin, 1791 as Nerita marochiensis) Nerita marochiensis Gmelin, 1791 (basionym) Notocochlis marochiensis (Gmelin, 1791) Tanea lemniscata (Philippi, 1851)

Natica marochiensis is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.

Distribution

This marine species has a wide distribution. It can be found at the following locations:

• Mediterranean Sea
• Atlantic Ocean : Cape Verde, West Africa, Angola
• Caribbean Sea
• Gulf of Mexico
• Lesser Antilles
• Indian Ocean : Mozambique

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 40 mm.

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 0 m. Maximum recorded depth is 94 m.

References

1. ^ Natica marochiensis (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 December 2018.
2. ^ Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.

• Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. . Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp.
• Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
• Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
• Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
• Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011) Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls.

External links

• Gmelin J.F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae
• Philippi, R. A. (1836). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 1. I-XIV, 1-303, Tab. XIII-XXVIII. Schropp, Berlin
• Jousseaume, F. (1874). Description de quelques espèces nouvelles de coquilles appartenant aux genres Murex, Cypraea et Natica. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie. 3 (2): 3-25
• Kabat A.R. (2000) Results of the Rumphius Biohistorical Expedition to Ambon (1990). Part 10. Mollusca, Gastropoda, Naticidae. Zoologische Mededelingen 73(25): 345-380

• Naticidae
• Gastropods described in 1791
• Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin
• Molluscs of the Atlantic Ocean
• Molluscs of the Mediterranean Sea
• Molluscs of Angola
• Molluscs of the Indian Ocean
• Gastropods of Cape Verde
• Invertebrates of Mozambique