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.
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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:Gastropods described in 1897
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