Glyphepithema floridana is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.
Nomenclature Faber (2010, Miscellanea Malacologica 4(5): 72) treated Glyphepithema as generically distinct from Natica, and thus reinstated Glyphepithema floridana as the valid name for the species also known as Natica tedbayeri.
Description
When the species was first described in 1943, Rehder provided the following physical description:
The maximum recorded shell length is .Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. .
Habitat The species' recorded depths range between .
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