Notocrater is a genus of deep-water true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pseudococculinidae, one of the families of true limpets.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
Several species in this genus have two tentacles on each side of the body situated in the lateral grooves between foot and mantleJosé 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
Species Species within the genus Notocrater include: Notocrater christofferseni Lima, 2014 Notocrater craticulatus (Suter, 1908) Notocrater gracilis B.A. Marshall, 1986 Notocrater houbricki McLean & Harasewych, 1995 † Notocrater maxwelli B. A. Marshall, 1986 Notocrater meridionalis (Hedley, 1903) Notocrater ponderi B.A. Marshall, 1986 Notocrater pustulosus (Thiele, 1925) Notocrater youngi McLean & Harasewych, 1995 Species brought into synonymy Notocrater craticulata (Suter, 1908): synonym of Notocrater craticulatus (Suter, 1908) Notocrater minutus (Habe, 1958): synonym of Notocrater pustulosus (Thiele, 1925)
References
Habe T. (1958). Descriptions of ten new gastropod species. Venus. 20(1): 32–42. Marshall B.A. (1986 ["1985"]) Recent and Tertiary Cocculinidae and Pseudococculinidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand and New South Wales. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 12: 505–546.
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. .
External links
Finlay H.J. (1926). A further commentary on New Zealand molluscan systematics. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 57: 320-485, pls 18-23