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Metula (gastropod)

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:

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 196–219. 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: 263–270. NIZT 682

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