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Florida Moonsnail

Glyphepithema floridana

Classification

Family
Naticidae

Glyphepithema floridana is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails. Nomenclature Faber (2010, Miscellanea Malacologica 4(5): 72) treated Glyphepithema as generically distinct from Natica, and thus reinstated Glyphepithema floridana as the valid name for the species also known as Natica tedbayeri. Description When the species was first described in 1943, Rehder provided the following physical description: The shell is globose and stout, with the body whorl very large and the spire small and conical.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 5