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Natica tigrina
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SUMMARY
This species lives on soft substrates and are predators on other molluscs, drilling holes in the shells using the radula and acidic secretions from a gland in the proboscis. Their foraging trails are often visible on sandy beaches at low tide. They have a calcified operculum.