Natica tigrina
General description:
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.
Phylogeny:
Class Gastropoda
Family Naticidae Forbes, 1838
Natica tigrina (Röding, 1798)