Natica is a genus of small to medium-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropods in the subfamily Naticinae of the family Naticidae, the moon snails.

[1] The genus is known from the Eocene to the Recent periods (age range: 37.2 to 0.012 million years ago).

The aperture is entire, semicircular, with an oblique, edentate, callous columellar side.

The prominent umbilicus is deep, often wide, well separated between the contracted columellar margin and the spiral, often thickened base of the columella.

The large operculum is calcareous, fully attached to the surface, sometimes sculpted with ridges, sometimes flattened, with the spiral located anteriorly and internally.