Neverita josephinia is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon shells.[1]
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Neverita josephinia Risso, 1826
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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.[2]
This is a Mediterranean species.[1][3]
Like other species in this genus, this snail has a corneous operculum.