Cryptonatica
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''Cryptonatica'' is a
genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
predatory Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill th ...
sea snails, marine gastropod
mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000  extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
s in the
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Naticidae Naticidae, common name moon snails or necklace shells, is a family of medium to large-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. The shells of the species in this family are mostly globular in shape. Nat ...
, the moon snails.


Species

Species within the genus ''Cryptonatica'' include: * '' Cryptonatica adamsiana'' (Dunker, 1860) * '' Cryptonatica affinis'' (Gmelin, 1791) * '' Cryptonatica aleutica'' (Dall, 1919) * '' Cryptonatica andoi'' (Nomura, 1935) * '' Cryptonatica bathybii'' (Friele, 1879) * '' Cryptonatica figurata'' (G. B. Sowerby III, 1914) * '' Cryptonatica hirasei'' (Pilsbry, 1905) * '' Cryptonatica huanghaiensis'' Zhang, 2008 * '' Cryptonatica janthostoma'' (Deshayes, 1839) * '' Cryptonatica operculata'' (Jeffreys, 1885) * '' Cryptonatica purpurfunda'' S.-P. Zhang & P. Wei, 2010 * '' Cryptonatica ranzii'' (Kuroda, 1961) * '' Cryptonatica russa'' (Gould, 1859) * '' Cryptonatica sphaera'' S.-P. Zhang & P. Wei, 2010 * '' Cryptonatica striatica'' S.-P. Zhang & P. Wei, 2010 * '' Cryptonatica wakkanaiensis'' Habe & Ito, 1976 * '' Cryptonatica zenryumaruae'' Habe & Ito, 1976 ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Cryptonatica bathybia'' Golikov & Sirenko, 1988: synonym of ''Cryptonatica bathybii'' (Friele, 1879) * ''Cryptonatica clausa'' (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829): synonym of ''Cryptonatica affinis'' (Gmelin, 1791) * ''Cryptonatica janthostomoides'' (Kuroda & Habe, 1949): synonym of ''Cryptonatica andoi'' (Nomura, 1935) * ''Cryptonatica salimba'' Dall, 1919: synonym of ''Cryptonatica affinis'' (Gmelin, 1791) * ''Cryptonatica septentrionalis'' Møller, 1842: synonym of ''Cryptonatica affinis'' (Gmelin, 1791)


References

* Deshayes, G. P., 1839. Nouvelles espèces de mollusques, provenant des côtes de la Californie, du Mexique, du Kamtschatka et de la Nouvelle-Zélande. Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne 2: 356-361 * Golikov, A. N.; Kussakin, O. G. (1974). Additions to the fauna of shell bearing Gastropods from the intertidal zone of the Kurile Islands. Sbornik Rabot Instituta Biologii Morya * Robba E., Pedriali L. & Quaggiotto E. (2016). Eocene, Oligocene and Miocene naticid gastropods of northern Italy. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. 122(2): 109-234.


External links


Dall W.H. (1892). Contributions to the Tertiary fauna of Florida with especial reference to the Miocene silex-beds of Tampa and the Pliocene beds of the Caloosahatchie River. 2. Streptodont and other gastropods, concluded. Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia. 3(2): 201-473
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