| Notocrater | |
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| Shell of Notocrater ponderi (paratype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Superfamily: | Lepetelloidea |
| Family: | Pseudococculinidae |
| Genus: | Notocrater Finlay, 1927 |
| Type species | |
| Cocculina craticulata Suter, 1908 | |
| Synonyms1 | |
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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 mantle2
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
References
- 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
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:CAPLGC]2.0.CO;2.