Natalina is a genus of medium-sized predatory air-breathing land snails, carnivorous terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Rhytididae.
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Rhytididae |
Subfamily: | Chlamydephorinae |
Genus: | Natalina Pilsbry, 1893 [1] |
Type species | |
Helix cafra A. Férussac, 1821[1]
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Species
editSpecies within the genus Natalina include:[1]
- Natalina beyrichi (E. von Martens, 1890) (Pondoland cannibal snail)
- Natalina cafra (A. Férussac, 1821)
- Natalina quekettiana (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1893)
- Natalina reenenensis Connolly, 1939
- Natalina wesseliana (Kobelt, 1876) (Tongaland cannibal snail)
References
edit- ^ a b Köhler, Frank (2021). "Natalina Pilsbry, 1893". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
- Nomenclator Zoologicus info
- Herbert, D.G. & Moussalli A. 2010. Revision of the larger cannibal snails (Natalina s. l.) of southern Africa - Natalina s. s., Afrorhytida and Capitina (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Rhytididae). African Invertebrates 51 (1): 1-132. [2]