Moon Snails
Naticidae
Naticidae, common name the moon snails or necklace shells, is a family of minute to large-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. The shells of the species in this family are mostly rather globular in shape.
8 branches of this family, most-observed first
Polinicinae
subfamilyPolinicinae
Naticinae
subfamilyNaticinae
Sininae
subfamilySininae
Laguncula
genusLaguncula
Globisininae
subfamilyGlobisininae
Benthobulbus
genusBenthobulbus
Microlinices
genusMicrolinices
Haliotinella
genusHaliotinella
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48923.