Notocrater
Encyclopedia
Notocrater is a genus
of deep-water true true limpets, marine
gastropod molluscs in the family
Lepetidae
, one of the families of true limpet
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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 deep-water true true limpets, 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...
Lepetidae
Lepetidae
Lepetidae is a family of sea snails or small, deep-water true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Patellogastropoda the true limpets.- Taxonomy :...
, one of the families of true limpet
Limpet
Limpet is a common name for a number of different kinds of saltwater and freshwater snails ; it is applied to those snails that have a simple shell which is more or less conical in shape, and either is not spirally coiled, or appears not to be coiled in the adult snails.The name limpet is most...
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Species
Species within the genus Notocrater include:- Notocrater craticulataNotocrater craticulataNotocrater craticulata is a southern, cold-water, deepwater species of limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Lepetidae, one of the families of true limpets.-References:...
(SuterHenry SuterHenry Suter was a New Zealand zoologist, naturalist, palaeontologist, and malacologist.- Biography :...
, 1908) - Notocrater houbricki McLean & Harasewych, 1995
- Notocrater youngi McLean & Harasewych, 1995
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. .