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Natica simplex

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| image = Appendix to Marine shells of South Africa Plate VI Fig 18.png

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| genus = Natica

| species = simplex

| authority = G. B. Sowerby III, 1897

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|Natica decipiens|E. A. Smith, 1904

|Natica kowiensis|Turton, 1932

|Natica saldontiana|Bartsch, 1915

|Natica simplex {{noitalic|f.}} saldontiana |Bartsch, 1915

|Natica whitechurchi|Turton, 1932

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

References

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{{Cite WoRMS|id=569952 |title=Natica simplex G. B. Sowerby III, 1897 |author=Bouchet, P. |author2=Rosenberg, G.|year=2017 |access-date=11 November 2017}}

{{cite book|last1=Sowerby|first1=G. B.|title=Appendix to Marine Shells of South Africa|date=1897|publisher=Sowerby|location=London|page=12|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13297097|quote=; [ Pl. 6], Fig. 18}}

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Further reading

  • MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp.
  • Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector’s Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp. page(s): 50
  • Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.
  • Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011) Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls.

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Category:Naticidae

Category:Gastropods described in 1897

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