Metula (gastropod)
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| Fossil shell of Metula mitraeformis from Pliocene of Italy | |
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| Metula metula Hinds, R.B., 1844 | |
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Metula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1]
Fossil records
This genus is known in the fossil records from the Paleocene to the Quaternary (age range: from 61.7 to 0.781 million years ago).[2]
Species
Species in the genus Metula include:
- Metula aegrota (Reeve, 1845)
- Metula africana Bouchet, 1988
- Metula agassizi Clench & Aguayo, 1941
- Metula amosi Vanatta, 1913
- Metula andamanica Smith, 1906
- Metula angioyorum Parth, 1992
- Metula bozzettii Parth, 1990
- Metula crosnieri Bouchet, 1988
- Metula cumingi A. Adams, 1853
- Metula daphnelloides Melville & Standen, 1903
- Metula ellena Olsson & Bayer, 1972
- Metula elongata Dall, 1907
- Metula frausseni Bozzetti, 1995
- Metula gigliottii Coltro, 2005
- Metula guppyi Olsson & Bayer, 1972
- Metula kilburni Parth, 1994
- Metula lintea Guppy, 1882
- Metula metula (Hinds, 1844)
- Metula metulina (Kuroda & Habe in Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971)
- Metula minor Olsson & Bayer, 1972
- Metula olssoni Woodring, 1928
- Metula optima Olsson & Bayer, 1972
- Metula parthi Bondarev, 1997
- Metula reticularis Traub, 1938
- Metula tumida Xiutong & Suping, 2000
- Species brought into synonymy
- Metula significans (Rehder, 1943) : synonym of Bartschia significans Rehder, 1943
References
- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2010). Metula H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225377 on 1 April 2011
- ^ Fossilworks
- Beu A.G. & Maxwell P.A. (1987) A revision of the fossil and living gastropods related to Plesiotriton Fischer, 1884 (Family Cancellariidae, Subfamily Plesiotritoninae n. subfam.). With an appendix: Genera of Buccinidae Pisaniinae related to Colubraria Schumacher, 1817. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 54:1-140
- H.; Marshall. B. (2009). All Mollusca except Opisthobranchia. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
- Kilburn R.N. (2004) The identities of Otitoma and Antimitra (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conidae and Buccinidae). African Invertebrates 45: 263-270. NIZT 682
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