Notocrater Explained

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 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)

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

Notes and References

1. 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