Notocrater

Notocrater
Shell of Notocrater ponderi (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

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.

Several species in this genus have two tentacles on each side of the body situated in the lateral grooves between foot and mantle

Species

Species within the genus Notocrater include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. 1 2 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
  2. ↑ 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

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