Metula (gastropod)
Encyclopedia
Metula is a genus
of sea snail
s, marine
gastropod molluscs in the family
Buccinidae
, the true whelks.
Species brought into synonymy :
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod molluscs in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Buccinidae
Buccinidae
Buccinidae is a very large and diverse taxonomic family of large sea snails, often known as whelks or true whelks.True whelks are mostly marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda...
, the true whelks.
Species
Species in the genus Metula include:- Metula aegrota (Reeve, 1845)
- Metula africana Bouchet, 1988
- Metula agassiziMetula agassiziMetula agassizi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
Clench & Aguayo, 1941 - Metula amosi Vanatta, 1913
- Metula andamanica Smith, 1906
- Metula angioyorum Parth, 1992
- Metula bozzettii Parth, 1990
- Metula crosnieri Bouchet, 1988
- Metula cumingiMetula cumingiMetula cumingi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
A. Adams, 1853 - Metula daphnelloides Melville & Standen, 1903
- Metula ellena Olsson & Bayer, 1972
- Metula elongata Dall, 1907
- Metula frausseni Bozzetti, 1995
- Metula gigliottiiMetula gigliottiiMetula gigliottii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
Coltro, 2005 - Metula guppyi Olsson & Bayer, 1972
- Metula kilburni Parth, 1994
- Metula lintea Guppy, 1882
- Metula metula (Hinds, 1844)
- Metula metulina (Kuroda & Habe in Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971)
- Metula minor Olsson & Bayer, 1972
- Metula olssoni Woodring, 1928
- Metula optima Olsson & Bayer, 1972
- Metula parthi Bondarev, 1997
- Metula reticularis Traub, 1938
- Metula tumida Xiutong & Suping, 2000
Species brought into synonymy :
- Metula significans (Rehder, 1943) : synonym of Bartschia significans Rehder, 1943