''Notocrater'' is a
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of deep-water
true limpet
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s,
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gastropod
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mollusc
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s in the
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Pseudococculinidae
Pseudococculinidae is a family of small sea snails or false limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Lepetelloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).Gofas, S. (2012). Pseudococculinidae. Accesse ...
, one of the families of true
limpet
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s.
[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]
Several species in this genus have two tentacles on each side of the body situated in the lateral grooves between foot and
mantle
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[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]
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
* 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. .
External links
Finlay H.J. (1926). A further commentary on New Zealand molluscan systematics. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 57: 320-485, pls 18-23
Pseudococculinidae
Gastropods of New Zealand
Taxa named by Harold John Finlay
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