Natica arachnoidea | |
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Several views of a shell of Natica arachnoidea | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Naticidae |
Genus: | Natica |
Species: | N. arachnoidea
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Binomial name | |
Natica arachnoidea (
Gmelin, 1791)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Natica arachnoidea, common name : the spider moon snail, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails. [1]
The size of an adult shell varies between 13 mm and 26 mm.
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This marine species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin and Mozambique; the Andamans; in the Western Pacific Ocean and Australia.