Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Naticoidea

Naticidae Guilding, 1834

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Naticidae incertae sedis
Naticinae Guilding, 1834
Polinicinae J. E. Gray, 1847
Sininae Woodring, 1928

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: tepelhorens sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: moon snails; moonshell; necklace shells; necklace snails sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

French: natices

German: Mondschnecken; Nabelschnecken sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: タマガイ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Norwegian Bokmål: boresnegler sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: boresniglar sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: borrsnäckor

Literature

original description	Guilding, L. (1834). Observations on Naticina and Dentalium, two genera of molluscous animals. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 17(1): 29-35, pl. 3.
basis of record	Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July].
additional source	Das, S. S.; Mondal, S.; Saha, S.; Bardhan, S.; Saha, R. (2019). Family Naticidae (Gastropoda) from the Upper Jurassic of Kutch, India and a critical reappraisal of taxonomy and time of origination of the family. Journal of Paleontology. 93(04): 673-684.
additional source	Azuma M. (1961). Studies on the radulae of Japanese Naticidae (1). Venus. 21(2): 196-204, pls 12-15.
additional source	Kabat A. R. (1991). The classification of the Naticidae (Mollusca Gastropoda). Review and analysis of the supraspecific taxa. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 152: 417-449
taxonomy source	Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011). Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum. 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Naticidae Guilding, 1834. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:145