Naticarius onca

Naticarius onca is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.^[1][2]

Naticarius onca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Naticidae
Genus:	Naticarius
Species:	N. onca
Binomial name
Naticarius onca (Röding, 1798)
Synonyms
Cochlis onca Röding, 1798 (basionym) Cochlis pavimentum Röding, 1798 Natica cailliaudii Récluz, 1850 Natica chinensis Lamarck, 1816 Natica litterata Link, 1807 Natica onca (Röding, 1798) Nerita candida W. Wood, 1825

Description

Shell size 20 mm.

Distribution

The species is known to occur in the Red Sea and in the Indo-Pacific off Aldabra, Madagascar, Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique and Tanzania^[2]