Natica marochiensis

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• Description
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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

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

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Gmelin, J.F. in Linnaeus, C. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. 13th Edn Lyon : J.B. Delamolliere Tom . 1 pars 6, pp. 3021–3910., 1791.

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

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

• Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1902-1971. url p. 79.
• Bulletins of American paleontology. 70 1977 Ithaca, N.Y., Paleontological Research Institution [etc.] url p. 387, p. 483, p. 493, p. 77.
• Catalogue of marine shells in Lorenzo G. Yates' collection, Santa Barbara, Cal. Santa Barbara, Cal., 1886. url p. 78.
• Catalogue of shells collected at Panama, with notes on their synonymy, station, and geographical distribution. By C.B. Adams. .. Read before the Lyceum of Natural History, May 10th, 1852. New York, R. Craighead, printer, 1852. url p. 201.
• Catalogue of the Doane collection of shells, presented by Mrs. Rose Delano to the Marion natural history society. s.n., The Wareham press, 19--? url p. 36.
• Catalogue of the Hadfield collection of shells from the Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands / James Cosmo Melvill and Robert Standen. Manchester: J.E. Cornish, 1895-1897. url p. 121.
• Catalogue of the collection of Mazatlan shells in the British Museum, collected by Frederick Reigen / described by Philip P. Carpenter. London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1857. url p. 448.
• Dr. James C. Cox's exchange list of land and marine shells from Australia and the adjacent islands. Sydney[F. Cunninghame & Co., printers]1868. url p. 7, p. 7.
• Journal of conchology. London: D. Bogue. url p. 121, p. 48, p. 67.
• 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. 189.
• 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. 21, p. 21, p. 22, p. 24, p. 41, p. 41, p. 415, p. 415, p. 76, p. 76, p. 76, p. 82, p. 82, p. 82, p. 83, p. 83, p. 84, p. 84, p. 84, p. 86, p. 86, p. 86, p. 87, p. 87, p. 87, p. 88, p. 88, p. 88, p. 92, p. 92, p. 92, p. 93, p. 93, p. 94, p. 94, p. 94, p. 95, p. 95, p. 95, p. 96, p. 96, p. 96, p. 97, p. 97, p. 97, p. 98, p. 98, p. 98.
• Marine mollusca of Madras and the immediate neighbourhood; notes on a collection of marine shells from Lively Island, Falklands; and other papers, ManchesterJ.E. Gornish1898 url p. 48.
• Marine shells of South Africa: a catalogue of all the known species, by G.B. Sowerby. London, Sowerby, 1892. url p. 24.
• Memoirs: Australian Museum. Sydney: The Museum, 1851- url p. 415.
• Mollusks of Tonkin & Indo China / Dautzenberg & Fischer. Paris: s.n., 1905-1908 url p. 173, p. 445.
• Natural history of Hawaii, being an account of the Hawaiian people, the geology and geography of the islands, and the native and introduced plants and animals of the group, Honolulu, Hawaii[Printed for the author by] the Hawaiian gazette co., ltd., 1915. url p. 471.
• Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, url , .
• "Pola" expedition: Mollusks. [5 works on mollusks resulting from investigations on voyages of the S.M. Schiff "Pola", 1890-1898] Wien, K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1896-1903. url p. 48.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 292, p. 292.
• Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences. Davenport, Ia., Academy of Natural Sciences [etc.] url p. 56.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 236, p. 298, p. 390, p. 998.
• Proceedings of the Rochester Academy of Science. Rochester, N.Y.: The Academy.1889- url p. 32.
• Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences. Washington, Washington Academy of Sciences. url p. 145, p. 145.
• Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: Academic Press, [etc.], 1833-1965. url p. 1042, p. 197, p. 359, p. 733, p. 866.
• Records of the Indian Museum. Calcutta: Pub. by order of the trustees of the Indian Museum, . 1907-1962. url p. 294, p. 32.
• Reports on zoology for 1843, 1844 / Tr. from the German by George Busk, Alfred Tulk, esq., and Alexander H. Haliday, esq. London: Printed for the Ray society, 1847. url p. 434.
• Revue méthodique et critique des collections déposées dans cet établissement. Leyden, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. url p. 374.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 10 1873 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 69.
• Some account of the fauna and flora of Sinai, Petra, and Wa?dy 'Arabah, London, Pub. for the Committee of the Palestine exploration fund by A. P. Watt, 1891. url .
• South African journal of science. [Marshalltown, Transvaal: South African Association for the Advancement of Science, url p. 277.
• Texas conchologist. Houston, Houston Conchology Society url p. 21.
• The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url p. 122, p. 122, p. 122.
• The Philippine journal of science. Manila: Bureau of Science url p. 254, p. 265, p. 266, p. 457.
• The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London. London [etc.] url p. 3.
• The mollusks of western North America embracing the second report made to the British Association on this subject, with other papers, reprinted by permission, with a general index / by Philip P. Carpenter. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1872. url p. 69.
• Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 8 1935 [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 32, p. 478.

Notes

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, NBI
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, iziko South African Museum - Mollusc Collection
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB, Paleobiology Database
• NLBIF, Natural History Museum Rotterdam

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2684909
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-72893
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13725670
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 72893
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 507738

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