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Scientific Name: Natica vitellus (Linnaeus, 1758)
English Name: Calf moon snail
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mullusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Naticidae
Description:
Shell of medium size, globose, thick, with rounded whorls and a short spire. Aperture lunar ovate, columella with polished callus posteriorly fusing with the body whorl and covering partly the umbilical depression leaving it anteriorly open, callosity without a spiral groove, funicle inconspicuous and fuses with the umbilical wall. Colour white with two broad, brown spiral bands on the body whorl, apex reddish brown. Operculum with four grooves parallel to the margin.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
St. Martin’s and Sonadia islands and also in Nuniarchar (Cox’s Bazar)
Environment:
Marine
Main References:
Siddiqui KU, Islam MA, Kabir SMH, Ahmad M, Ahmed ATA, Rahman AKA, Haque EU, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hassan MA, Khondker M, Rahman MM (2007) Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol. 17. Molluscs. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka 415 pp.
Other References:
Hossain MS, Sharifuzzaman SM, Chowdhury SR, Chowdhury MSN, Sarkar S, Islam MR and Talukder A (2014) Sea Shells of Bangladesh: Marine Gastropod and Bivalve Molluscs Biodiversity.1-44pp
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