Metula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Colubrariidae.
Fossil records
This genus is known in the fossil records from the Paleocene to the Quaternary (age range: from 61.7 to 0.781 million years ago).
Species
Species in the genus Metula include:
- Metula aegrota <small>(Reeve, 1845)</small>
- Metula africana <small>Bouchet, 1988</small>
- Metula agaoensis <small>S.-I Huang & M.-H. Lin, 2019</small>
- Metula amosi <small>Vanatta, 1913</small>
- Metula andamanica <small>Smith, 1906</small>
- Metula angioyorum <small>Parth, 1992</small>
- Metula bozzettii <small>Parth, 1990</small>
- Metula crosnieri <small>Bouchet, 1988</small>
- Metula cumingi <small>A. Adams, 1853</small>
- Metula daphnelloides <small>Melville & Standen, 1903</small>
- Metula ellena <small>Olsson & Bayer, 1972</small>
- Metula elongata <small>Dall, 1907</small>
- Metula etelvinae <small>Bozzetti, 2001</small>
- Metula eureka <small>S.-I Huang & M.-H. Lin, 2019</small>
- Metula frausseni <small>Bozzetti, 1995</small>
- Metula gigliottii <small>Coltro, 2005</small>
- Metula inflata <small>(Houbrick, 1984)</small>
- Metula kilburni <small>Parth, 1994</small>
- Metula knudseni <small>Kilburn, 1975</small>
- Metula lintea <small>Guppy, 1882</small>
- Metula metula <small>(Hinds, 1844)</small>
- Metula metulina <small>(Kuroda & Habe in Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971)</small>
- Metula minor <small>Olsson & Bayer, 1972</small>
- Metula mitrella <small>(A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)</small>
- Metula mozambicana <small>S.-I Huang & M.-H. Lin, 2019</small>
- Metula olssoni <small>Woodring, 1928</small>
- Metula optima <small>Olsson & Bayer, 1972</small>
- Metula parthi <small>Bondarev, 1997</small>
- Metula reticularis <small>Traub, 1938</small>
- Metula sulcata <small>S.-Q. Zhang, J.-L. Zhang & S.-P. Zhang, 2016</small>
- Metula thachi <small>Fraussen & S.-I. Huang, 2011</small>
- Metula tumida <small>Xiutong & Suping, 2000</small>
Species brought into synonymy:
- Metula agassizi Clench & Aguayo, 1941: synonym of Bartschia agassizi <small>(Clench & Aguayo, 1941)</small> (original combination)
- Metula anfractura <small>Matthews & Rios, 1968</small>: synonym of Bartschia agassizi <small>(Clench & Aguayo, 1941)</small>
- Metula boswellae <small>Kilburn, 1975</small>: synonym of Kanamarua boswellae <small>(Kilburn, 1975)</small> (original combination)
- Metula canetae <small>(Clench & Aguayo, 1944)</small>: synonym of Gaillea canetae <small>(Clench & Aguayo, 1944)</small>
- Metula chetyzecchiae <small>Bozzetti, 1992</small>: synonym of Metula metulina <small>(Kuroda & Habe, 1971)</small>
- Metula clathrata <small>(A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)</small>: synonym of Metula knudseni <small>Kilburn, 1975</small> (based on junior primary homonym)
- Metula clathrata <small>Knudsen, 1956</small>: synonym of Metula africana <small>Bouchet, 1988</small> (secondary homonym of M. clathrata (Adams & Reeve, 1850))
- Metula fusiformis <small>Clench & Aguayo, 1941</small>: synonym of Manaria fusiformis <small>(Clench & Aguayo, 1941)</small> (original combination)
- Metula guppyi <small>Olsson & Bayer, 1972</small>: synonym of Bartschia guppyi <small>(Olsson & Bayer, 1972)</small> (original combination)
- Metula hindsii <small>H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858</small>: synonym of Metula metula <small>(Hinds, 1844)</small> (unnecessary substitute name for Buccinum metula, established to avoid tautonymy)
- Metula rehderi <small>(Kilburn, 1977)</small>: synonym of Kanamarua hyatinthus <small>Shikama, 1973</small>
- Metula significans (Rehder, 1943) : synonym of Bartschia significans <small>Rehder, 1943</small>
- Metula somalica <small>Bozzetti, 1993</small>: synonym of Kanamarua somalica <small>(Bozzetti, 1993)</small> (original combination)
- Metula vicdani <small>Kosuge, 1989</small>: synonym of Kanamarua hyatinthus <small>Shikama, 1973</small>
References
- Beu A.G. & Maxwell P.A. (1987) A revision of the fossil and living gastropods related to Plesiotriton Fischer, 1884 (Family Cancellariidae, Subfamily Plesiotritoninae n. subfam.). With an appendix: Genera of Buccinidae Pisaniinae related to Colubraria Schumacher, 1817. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 54:1-140
- Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196âÂÂ219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
- Kilburn R.N. (2004) The identities of Otitoma and Antimitra (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conidae and Buccinidae). African Invertebrates 45: 263âÂÂ270. NIZT 682
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