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nat´i`ca

(Zool.) Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods belonging to Natica, Lunatia, Neverita, and other allied genera (family Naticidæ.) They burrow beneath the sand, or mud, and drill other shells.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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(2004), found Nudibranquia eggs, Aplysia sp., Sinum cymba, Chione sp., Natica sp., Nassarius grayi, Mactra sp., Semimytilus algosus and other mytilids in 10 of 11 stomach contents analyzed.

Feeding ecology of the green turtle Chelonia mydas in northern Peru

Sowerby 1,1825) Littorinimorpha Natica didyma (Roding, 1798) Order Scientific Name Littorinimorpha Natica rufa (Born, 1778) Littorinimorpha Tibia curta (G.

Biodiversity of marine gastropods along the Uran coast, Navi Mumbai, west coast of India

Sowerby I,1825) Natica didyma (Roding, 1798) Natica rufa (Born, 1778) Tibia curta (G.

Checklist of benthic marine macrophytes and macrofauna from Uran coast, Navi Mumbai, off the Arabian Sea

Snails like the scavenger Nassarius luteostoma and the predator Natica unifasciata crawl on the sediment surface year around, while the sand dollar Encope stokessi is more frequent during the dry seasons.

Braquiopodos, sipunculidos, enteropneustos y metales en dos planicies estuarinas de marea, Pacifico, Costa Rica

From gastropod examples: Trochus, Clanculus, Planaxis, Natica, Conus, Thais and Siphonaria.

Distribution of Intertidal Molluscs along Tarut Island Coast, Arabian Gulf, Saudi Arabia

Northern (sub-tropical) fauna comprised about 20% of total recorded species diversity at Shelly Beach and included Scaeochlamys livida, Vepricardium multispinosum, the seven cowries, Natica gualtieriana, Cronia aurantiaca and Hydatina physis.

A survey of the marine bivalves and gastropods of Shelly Beach, Port Macquarie, on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia

roscoei, Natica (Natica) Kilburn, 1976: 839, figs 4a, b, 12a.

Richard ('Dick') Neil Kilburn (1942-2013): bibliography and listings of new taxa named by him and in his honour