Natica vitellus ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Jirapatrasilp, Parin, Cuny, Gilles, Kocsis, László, Sutcharit, Chirasak, Ngamnisai, Nom, Charoentitirat, Thasinee, Kumpitak, Satapat & Suraprasit, Kantapon, 2024, Mid-Holocene marine faunas from the Bangkok Clay deposits in Nakhon Nayok, the Central Plain of Thailand, ZooKeys 1202, pp. 1-110 : 1-110

Natica vitellus ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Figs 3 E , 6 C

Nerita vitellus Linnaeus, 1758: 776. Type locality: Asiatic Ocean.

Natica vitellus . Tesch 1920: 70 – 71, pl. 132, fig. 207 a, b. Cernohorsky 1972: 94, pl. 24, fig. 5. Tantanasiriwong 1978: 11, fig. 141. Nateewathana et al. 1981: 58. Way and Purchon 1981: 317. Majima 1989: 74 – 76, pl. 10, figs 1 – 12, text-figs 4.1, 15.38. Wilson 1993: 217, pl. 36, fig. 28. Bosch et al. 1995: 87, fig. 322. Poutiers 1998 b: 515, with in-text figs. Subba Rao and Dey 2000: 78. Swennen et al. 2001: 54, 121, fig. 371. Hylleberg and Kilburn 2003: 57. Robba et al. 2003: table 5. Robba et al. 2004: 71 – 73, pl. 9, fig. 3 a, b. Dharma 2005: 176, pl. 63, fig. 17; 342, pl. 136, fig. 5 a, b. Ramakrishna et al. 2007: 8, 67. Robba et al. 2007: 91 (appendix). Hollmann 2008: 492, pl. 191, fig. 7. Nabhitabhata 2009: 125. Torigoe and Inaba 2011: 69 – 70. Sanpanich and Duangdee 2013: 57. BEDO 2017 b: 162, with in-text fig. Okutani 2017: 862, pl. 149, fig. 4. Yang et al. 2017: 56, fig. 230. Harzhauser et al. 2018: 7 – 8, pl. 1, figs 7 – 15. Tudu et al. 2018: table 1. Wells et al. 2021: 83.

Natica (Natica) vitellus . Cernohorsky 1971: 173 – 174, 176, figs 2 – 5. Ladd 1982: 39, pl. 6, fig. 7.

Natica vitellus vitellus . Thach 2005: 86, pl. 26, fig. 8.

Referred material.

CUF - NKNY - G 04 (5 shells; Figs 3 E , 6 C ).

Habitat.

Fine sandy or muddy bottoms in intertidal zones down to ~ 120 m depth ( Robba et al. 2004); in clean coral-sand pockets and weedy-sand lagoons ( Cernohorsky 1971).

Distribution.

Persian Gulf to Indian Ocean; Indo-West Pacific, from Japan to Australia ( Bosch et al. 1995; Poutiers 1998 b; Okutani 2017). Several records of fossils from the Early Miocene to Holocene in India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Polynesia, Taiwan, Vanuatu, and Thailand ( Ladd 1982; Robba et al. 2004; Dharma 2005).

Record in Thailand.

Gulf of Thailand and Andaman Sea ( Wells et al. 2021).

Taxonomic remarks and comparisons.

This species differs from its similar species, Natica stellata , in lacking a tongue-shaped extension of a parietal callus over the posterior part of the umbilicus ( Cernohorsky 1971). See also comprehensive taxonomic remarks in Cernohorsky (1971).

Paratectonatica Azuma, 1961

Figures

Figure 3. Size comparison of coral and gastropods found in this study A Oulangia cf. stokesiana B Neripteron violaceum C Nerita articulata D Natica stellata E Natica vitellus F Homalopoma cf. sangarense G Eunaticina papilla H Ergaea walshi I Pirenella incisa J Scalptia scalariformis K Telescopium telescopium L Merica elegans M Cerithidea obtusa N Bufonaria rana O Nassarius micans P Nassarius siquijorensis Q Paratectonatica tigrina.

Figure 6. Gastropods A Eunaticina papilla B Natica stellata C Natica vitellus D Paratectonatica tigrina E Ergaea walshi F Bufonaria rana G Merica elegans H Scalptia scalariformis.