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[[Category:Lepetidae]]
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[[Category:Molluscs of New Zealand]]
[[Category:Gastropods of New Zealand]]

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Notocrater
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Notocrater

Finlay, 1927
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Notocrater is a genus of true deep water limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Lepetidae, true limpets.

Distribution

This genus is endemic to New Zealand.

Description

Notocrater shells are small, oval, elevated, with a hooked apex near to the anterior end. Sculpture is of oblique radials crossed by concentric grooves.

Species

References

  • "Notocrater". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1