Genus Natica Scopoli, 1777

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Genus Natica Scopoli, 1777

Natica Scopoli, G.A. 1777. Introductio ad Historiam Naturalem, sistens genera lapidum, plantarum et animalium hactenus detecta, caracteribus essentialibus donata, in tribus divisa, subinde ad leges naturae. Prague : Wolfgangus Gerle 506 pp. [392] [Scopoli attributed the name to Adanson, 1757, which was published in a pre-Linnaean work. See also Naticites].
Type species:
Nerita vitellus Linnaeus, 1758 (type species designations citing Nerita canrena Linnaeus, 1758, as type are invalid as this was not an originally included species) by subsequent designation, see Harris, G.F. 1897. Catalogue of Tertiary Mollusca in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History). The Australasian Tertiary Mollusca. London : British Museum of Natural History Part 1 407 pp., 8 pls. [255].
Cochlis Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [146].
Type species:
Nerita vittata Gmelin, 1791 by subsequent designation, see Hedley, C. 1916. Mollusca. Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14, Scientific Reports, Series C: Zoology & Botany 4(1): 1–80 [51].
Notocochlis Powell, A.W.B. 1933. Notes on the Taxonomy of the Recent Cymatiidæ and Naticidæ of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 63(2): 154-168 [166].
Type species:
Cochlis migratoria Powell, 1927 by original designation.

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New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

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IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)