Naticarius onca

Naticarius onca
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Naticidae
Genus:	Naticarius
Species:	N. onca
Binomial name
	Naticarius onca; (Röding, 1798)
Synonyms
	Cochlis onca Röding, 1798 (basionym); Cochlis pavimentum Röding, 1798; Natica cailliaudii Récluz, 1850; Natica chinensis Lamarck, 1816; Natica litterata Link, 1807; Natica onca (Röding, 1798); Nerita candida W. Wood, 1825;

Naticarius onca is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.^[1]^[2]

Description

Shell size 20 mm.

The species is known to occur in the Red Sea and in the Indo-Pacific off Aldabra, Madagascar, Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique and Tanzania^[2]

^ Naticarius onca (Röding, 1798). WoRMS (2009). Naticarius onca (Röding, 1798). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=570008 on 17 June 2010 .
^ ^a ^b Huelsken, T., Wägele, H., Peters, B., Mather, A., Hollmann, M. (2011) Molecular analysis of adults and egg masses reveals two independent lineages within the infaunal gastropod Naticarius onca (Röding, 1798) (Caenogastropoda: Naticidae). Molluscan Research, 31(3), 141-151. PDF

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