Overview
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Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Livid Moonsnail
Description
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Family Naticidae
Diameter about equal to the height ; shell generally almost globose , consisting mostly of the body whorl (umbilicus either conspicuously open or covered by an obvious callus; height of some species attaining 10 cm).
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
()
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
()
- Phylum:
Mollusca
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758) Cuvier, 1795
- Molluscs
- Subclass:
Orthogastropoda
()
- Ponder & Lindberg, 1996
- Superorder:
Caenogastropoda
()
- Cox, 1960
- Order:
Sorbeoconcha
()
- Ponder & Lindberg, 1997
- Suborder:
Hypsogastropoda
()
- Ponder & Lindberg, 1997
- Infraorder:
Littorinimorpha
()
- Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975
- Superfamily:
Naticoidea
()
- L. Guilding, 1834
- Superfamily:
Naticoidea
(
- Infraorder:
Littorinimorpha
(
- Suborder:
Hypsogastropoda
(
- Order:
Sorbeoconcha
(
- Superorder:
Caenogastropoda
(
- Subclass:
Orthogastropoda
(
- Phylum:
Mollusca
(
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
(
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Natica
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species and subspecies in this genus:
N. castrensis (Netted Moonsnail) · N. livida (Livid Moonsnail) · N. marochiensis (Morocco Moonsnail) · N. sagraiana (Lined Moonsnail)
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Further Reading
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- American seashells. With illus. by Frederick M. Bayer. New York, Van Nostrand[1954] url , p. 186, p. 191.
- British marine conchology; being a descriptive catalogue, arranged according to the Lamarckian system, of the salt water shells of Great Britain, by Charles Thorpe, assisted by several distinguished conchologists. London, E. Lumley, 1844. url p. 265.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 154.
- Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 18 1889 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 26, p. 26, p. 292, p. 292.
- Bulletins of American paleontology. 39 1958 Ithaca, N.Y., Paleontological Research Institution [etc.] url p. 15, p. 367.
- East coast marine shells: descriptions of shore mollusks together with many living below tide mark, from Maine to Texas inclusive, especially Florida, with more than one thousand drawings and photographs / by Maxwell Smith. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Edwards Brothers, 1951, [c1937] url p. 91.
- East coast marine shells; descriptions of shore mollusks together with many living below tide mark, from Maine to Texas inclusive, especially Florida. Ann Arbor, Mich., Edwards Brothers, Inc.[c1937] url p. 91.
- List of marine Mollusca comprising the Quaternary fossils and recent forms from American localities between Cape Hatteras and Cape Roque, including the Bermudas / by William Healey Dall. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1885. url p. 188.
- Manual of conchology, structural and systematic: with illustrations of the species / by George W. Tryon, Jr. Philadelphia: Published by the Author, Academy of Natural Sciences, 1879-1898. url p. 37, p. 37, p. 416, p. 416, p. 416.
- Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences. Washington, Washington Academy of Sciences. url p. 145, p. 145.
- Studies in natural history. Iowa City, Ia. url p. 25.
- Texas conchologist. Houston, Houston Conchology Society url p. 121, p. 19, p. 88, p. 89.
- The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url p. 115, p. 115, p. 127, p. 127.
- Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: F. & W. Dodsworth, 1850-1864. url p. 163.
Notes
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Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 30, 2008:
- Academy of Natural Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database
- Academy of Natural Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences OBIS Mollusc Database [Darwin Core]
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, SINBIOTA - marine data
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2684911
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-72895
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 72895
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 507740
