Neverita josephinia

Neverita josephinia
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Naticidae
Genus: Neverita
Species:
N. josephinia
Binomial name
Neverita josephinia
Risso, 1826
Synonyms
  • Natica josephinia (Risso, 1826)
  • Natica josephinia var. aegyptiaca Pallary, 1912
  • Natica josephinia var. caelata Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883
  • Natica philippiana Récluz in Chenu, 1843
  • Natica philippiana Reeve, 1855
  • Neverita philippiana (Récluz, C., 1855)

Neverita josephinia is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc 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.