Tectonatica
Genus of gastropods
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Tectonatica is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Naticinae of the family Naticidae, the moon snails.[3]
| Tectonatica | |
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| Tectonatica violacea | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Naticoidea |
| Family: | Naticidae |
| Subfamily: | Naticinae |
| Genus: | Tectonatica Sacco, 1890 [2] |
| Type species | |
| Tectonatica tectula Sacco, F., 1890 | |
Fossil record
Fossils of Tectonatica are found in marine strata from the Eocene until the Quaternary (age range: from 61.7 to 0.0 million years ago.). Fossils are known from various localities in Europe, North America, South America and Japan.[1]
Distribution
This marine genus occurs in the Indo-West Pacific and off Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia).
Species
Species within the genus Tectonatica include:
- Tectonatica bougei (Sowerby, 1908)
- Tectonatica impervia (Philippi, 1845)
- Tectonatica lactinea (X.-T. Ma & S.-P. Zhang, 1993)
- Tectonatica micra (Haas, 1953)
- † Tectonatica occulta (Deshayes, 1864)
- Tectonatica prietoi (Hidalgo, 1873)
- Tectonatica pusilla (Say, 1822)
- Tectonatica rizzae (Philippi, 1844)
- Tectonatica robillardi (Sowerby, 1894)
- Tectonatica sagraiana (d'Orbigny, 1842)
- Tectonatica shorehami (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1900)
- Tectonatica suffusa (Reeve, 1855)
- Tectonatica tecta (Anton, 1838)
- † Tectonatica tectula (Sacco, 1890)
- Tectonatica violacea (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)
- Tectonatica zonulata (Thiele, 1930)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Tectonatica clausiformis Oyama, 1969: synonym of Cryptonatica affinis (Gmelin, 1791)
- Tectonatica filosa (Philippi, 1845) : synonym of Tectonatica sagraiana (d'Orbigny, 1842)
- Tectonatica flammulata (Requien, 1848): synonym of Tectonatica sagraiana (d'Orbigny, 1842)
- Tectonatica janthostomoides Kuroda & Habe, 1949: synonym of Cryptonatica janthostomoides (Kuroda & Habe, 1949)
- Tectonatica operculata (Jeffreys, 1885): synonym of Cryptonatica operculata (Jeffreys, 1885)
- Tectonatica pavimentum (Recluz, 1844): synonym of Tanea pavimentum (Recluz, 1844)
- Tectonatica rikuzenensis Tiba, 1985: synonym of Cryptonatica ranzii (Kuroda, 1961)
- Tectonatica unicolor (Ma & Zhang, 1993): synonym of Tectonatica lactinea (X.-T. Ma & S.-P. Zhang, 1993)
- Tectonatica venustula (Philippi, 1851): synonym of Notocochlis venustula (Philippi, 1851): synonym of Notocochlis gualteriana (Récluz, 1844)
