Natica fulminea

Natica fulminea, common name the lightning moon snail, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.^[1]

Natica fulminea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Naticidae
Genus:	Natica
Species:	N. fulminea
Binomial name
Natica fulminea (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[1]
Cochlis ziczac Röding, P.F., 1798 Nacca fulminea (Gmelin, 1791) Nacca fulminea f. cruentata (Gmelin, 1791) Natica bourguignati Récluz, 1852 Natica cruentata (Gmelin, 1791) Natica fulminea cruentata (Gmelin, 1791) Natica senegalensis Récluz, 1850 Nerita cruentata Gmelin, 1791 Nerita fulminea Gmelin, 1791 (original combination)

Description

The size of the shell varies between 18 mm and 35 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Gabon, the Western Sahara and Angola.