Spotted Moon Snail (species: Natica gualtieriana) in taxonomy (Gaia Guide)
Natica gualtieriana
Spotted Moon Snail


©David: Spotted Moon Snail (Natica gualtieriana), Russell Island
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Neotaenioglossa
Family Naticidae
Genus Natica
Species Natica gualtieriana

Distinguishing features

Distinguishing features still need to be specified.

Size

  • Size data has not been obtained.

Synonyms

Interesting facts

  • All you have to do is replace the clam with a family sitting at home watching TV and you have an awesome Science Fiction Horror Movie Scene. A church size Spotted Moon Snail erupts from the back garden with a huge muscular foot reaching out and surrounding the house. The family have time to lock the doors and windows but a slimy mucous seeps in and slowly fills the rooms. Trying to hold it back, the father gets the slime on his hands and it paralyses him and then these spinning teeth emerge from the Moon Snail and drill through the wall and a proboscis (much like an elephant trunk) comes through the hole and devours everyone.
    A few days later the police arrive to find an empty house with a perfectly symmetrical hole in the wall.

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