Notocrater
Genus of gastropods
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Notocrater is a genus of deep-water true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pseudococculinidae, one of the families of true limpets.[1]
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| Notocrater | |
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| Shell of Notocrater ponderi (paratype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific 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[1] | |
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Punctolepeta Habe, 1958 | |
Several species in this genus have two tentacles on each side of the body situated in the lateral grooves between foot and mantle[2]
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)
