Eunaticina
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Eunaticina is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of predatory sea snail
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....

s, marine
Marine (ocean)
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 gastropod mollusks in the family
Family (biology)
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 Naticidae
Naticidae
Naticidae, common name the moon snails, is a family of minute to large-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.Naticidae is the only family in the superfamily Naticoidea....

, the moon snails.

Species

Species within the genus Eunaticina include:
  • Eunaticina africana
    Eunaticina africana
    Eunaticina africana is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....

    Fernandes & Burnay
  • Eunaticina mienisi
    Eunaticina mienisi
    Eunaticina mienisi is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....

  • Eunaticina papilla
    Eunaticina papilla
    Eunaticina papilla, common name : the papilla moon snail, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.-Description:The size of an adult shell varies between 8 mm and 35 mm....

    (Gmelin, 1791)


According to the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database, the following species are also in current use
  • Eunaticina albosutura Verco, 1909
  • Eunaticina coarctata (Reeve, 1864)
  • Eunaticina lamarckiana (Récluz, 1843)
  • Eunaticina linnaeana (Récluz, 1843)
  • Eunaticina oblonga Reeve, 1864
  • Eunaticina perobliqua (Dautzenberg and Fischer, 1906)
  • Eunaticina pomatiella Melvill, 1892
  • Eunaticina umbilicata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
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