Notocrater
Appearance
Notocrater | |
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Shell of Notocrater ponderi (paratype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Lepetellida |
Superfamily: | Lepetelloidea |
Family: | Pseudococculinidae |
Genus: | Notocrater Finlay, 1927 |
Type species | |
Cocculina craticulata Suter, 1908 | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Punctolepeta Habe, 1958 |
Notocrater is a genus of deep-water true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pseudococculinidae, one of the families of true limpets.[1]
Several species in this genus have two tentacles on each side of the body situated in the lateral grooves between foot and mantle[2]
Species
Species within the genus Notocrater include:
- Notocrater christofferseni Lima, 2014
- Notocrater craticulatus (Suter, 1908)
- Notocrater gracilis B.A. Marshall, 1986
- Notocrater houbricki McLean & Harasewych, 1995
- † Notocrater maxwelli B. A. Marshall, 1986
- Notocrater meridionalis (Hedley, 1903)
- Notocrater ponderi B.A. Marshall, 1986
- Notocrater pustulosus (Thiele, 1925)
- Notocrater youngi McLean & Harasewych, 1995
- Species brought into synonymy
- Notocrater craticulata (Suter, 1908): synonym of Notocrater craticulatus (Suter, 1908)
- Notocrater minutus (Habe, 1958): synonym of Notocrater pustulosus (Thiele, 1925)
References
- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2012). Notocrater Finlay, 1926. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=531995 on 2013-02-14
- ^ José H. Leal and M. G. Harasewych, Deepest Atlantic Molluscs: Hadal Limpets (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Cocculiniformia) from the Northern Boundary of the Caribbean Plate, Invertebrate Biology, Vol. 118, No. 2 (Spring, 1999), pp. 128
- Habe T. (1958). Descriptions of ten new gastropod species. Venus. 20(1): 32-42.
- Marshall B.A. (1986 ["1985"]) Recent and Tertiary Cocculinidae and Pseudococculinidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand and New South Wales. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 12: 505-546.
Further reading
- Ardila N. E. & Harasewych M. G. (June 2005). "Cocculinid and pseudococculinid limpets (Gastropoda: Cocculiniformia) from off the Caribbean coast of Colombia". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 118(2): 344-366. doi:10.2988/0006-324X(2005)118[344:CAPLGC2.0.CO;2].
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