Cryptonatica

Cryptonatica is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.^[1]

Cryptonatica
Shell of Cryptonatica janthostoma (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Naticoidea
Family:	Naticidae
Subfamily:	Naticinae
Genus:	Cryptonatica Dall, 1892
Type species
Natica clausa Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829
Synonyms[1]
Boreonatica Golikov & Kussakin, 1974 (junior objective synonym of Cryptonatica) Natica (Cryptonatica) Dall, 1892 (original rank) Sulconatica Golikov & Kussakin, 1974

Species

Species within the genus Cryptonatica include:

• Cryptonatica adamsiana (Dunker, 1860)
• Cryptonatica affinis (Gmelin, 1791)^[2]
• Cryptonatica aleutica (Dall, 1919)
• Cryptonatica andoi (Nomura, 1935)
• Cryptonatica bathybii (Friele, 1879)^[3]
• Cryptonatica figurata (G. B. Sowerby III, 1914)
• Cryptonatica hirasei (Pilsbry, 1905)
• Cryptonatica huanghaiensis Zhang, 2008^[4]
• Cryptonatica janthostoma (Deshayes, 1839)
• Cryptonatica operculata (Jeffreys, 1885)^[5]
• 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)