Natica arachnoidea

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]

Natica arachnoidea
Several views of a shell of Natica arachnoidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Naticidae
Genus:	Natica
Species:	N. arachnoidea
Binomial name
Natica arachnoidea (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[1]
Natica crassa Schepman, 1909 (Invalid: junior homonym of Natica crassa Nyst, 1845; Uber schepmani is a replacement name) Natica raynaudiana Récluz, 1844 Natica raynoldiana Récluz, 1844 Nerita arachnoidea Gmelin, 1791 (basionym) Uber schepmani Iredale, 1927

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 13 mm and 26 mm.

Distribution

This marine species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin and Mozambique; the Andamans; in the Western Pacific Ocean and Australia.