Neverita josephinia
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Neverita josephinia Temporal range: Oligocene - Recent |
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| Neverita josephinia | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Naticoidea |
| Family: | Naticidae |
| Genus: | Neverita |
| Species: | N. josephinia |
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Neverita josephinia Risso, 1826 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Neverita olla (Serres, M. de, 1829) |
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Neverita olla (Serres, M. de, 1829)
Neverita philippiana (Récluz, C., 1855)
Neverita josephinia is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon shells.
This is the type species of the genus Neverita.
The fossil record of this species dates back to the Oligocene (age range: 23.03 to 0.012 million years ago). These fossils have been found in Hungary, Germany, Greece, Italy, Slovakia, Spain and Morocco.
This is a Mediterranean species.
Like other species in this genus, this snail has a corneous operculum.
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