Notocrater

Notocrater
Shell of Notocrater ponderi (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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]

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.[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]

  1. ^ a b 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