Notocrater gracilis

Notocrater gracilis
Shell of Notocrater gracilis (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Lepetellida
Family:	Pseudococculinidae
Genus:	Notocrater
Species:	N. gracilis
Binomial name
Notocrater gracilis B.A. Marshall, 1986

Notocrater gracilis is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudococculinidae, the false limpets.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand.

References

• Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch

External links

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• USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
• World Register of Marine Species
• Marshall, B. A. (1986). Recent and Tertiary Cocculinidae and Pseudococculinidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand and New South Wales. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 12(4): 505-546.