Metula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Colubrariidae.[1]
Quick Facts Scientific classification, Type species ...
| Metula |
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| Shell of Metula africana (holotype at MNHN, Paris) |
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Scientific classification  |
| Domain: |
Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Mollusca |
| Class: |
Gastropoda |
| Subclass: |
Caenogastropoda |
| Order: |
Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: |
Buccinoidea |
| Family: |
Colubrariidae |
| Genus: |
Metula
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 |
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| Type species |
Buccinum clathratum
A. Adams & Reeve, 1850 |
| Synonyms[1] |
- Acamptochetus Cossmann, 1901
- Agassitula Olsson & Bayer, 1972
- Antemetula Rehder, 1943
- Antimitra Iredale, 1917
- Colubrarina Kuroda & Habe in Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971
- Floritula Olsson & Bayer, 1972
- Minitula Olsson & Bayer, 1972
- Mitromorpha (Antimitra) Iredale, 1917
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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).[2]
Species in the genus Metula include:
- Metula aegrota (Reeve, 1845)
- Metula africana Bouchet, 1988
- Metula agaoensis S.-I Huang & M.-H. Lin, 2019
- Metula amosi Vanatta, 1913
- Metula andamanica Smith, 1906
- Metula angioyorum Parth, 1992
- Metula bozzettii Parth, 1990
- Metula crosnieri Bouchet, 1988
- Metula cumingi A. Adams, 1853
- Metula daphnelloides Melville & Standen, 1903
- Metula ellena Olsson & Bayer, 1972
- Metula elongata Dall, 1907
- Metula etelvinae Bozzetti, 2001
- Metula eureka S.-I Huang & M.-H. Lin, 2019
- Metula frausseni Bozzetti, 1995
- Metula gigliottii Coltro, 2005
- Metula inflata (Houbrick, 1984)
- Metula kilburni Parth, 1994
- Metula knudseni Kilburn, 1975
- Metula lintea Guppy, 1882
- Metula metula (Hinds, 1844)
- Metula metulina (Kuroda & Habe in Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971)
- Metula minor Olsson & Bayer, 1972
- Metula mitrella (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)
- Metula mozambicana S.-I Huang & M.-H. Lin, 2019
- Metula olssoni Woodring, 1928
- Metula optima Olsson & Bayer, 1972
- Metula parthi Bondarev, 1997
- Metula reticularis Traub, 1938
- Metula sulcata S.-Q. Zhang, J.-L. Zhang & S.-P. Zhang, 2016
- Metula thachi Fraussen & S.-I. Huang, 2011
- Metula tumida Xiutong & Suping, 2000
- Species brought into synonymy
- Metula agassizi Clench & Aguayo, 1941: synonym of Bartschia agassizi (Clench & Aguayo, 1941) (original combination)
- Metula anfractura Matthews & Rios, 1968: synonym of Bartschia agassizi (Clench & Aguayo, 1941)
- Metula boswellae Kilburn, 1975: synonym of Kanamarua boswellae (Kilburn, 1975) (original combination)
- Metula canetae (Clench & Aguayo, 1944): synonym of Gaillea canetae (Clench & Aguayo, 1944)
- Metula chetyzecchiae Bozzetti, 1992: synonym of Metula metulina (Kuroda & Habe, 1971)
- Metula clathrata (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850): synonym of Metula knudseni Kilburn, 1975 (based on junior primary homonym)
- Metula clathrata Knudsen, 1956: synonym of Metula africana Bouchet, 1988 (secondary homonym of M. clathrata (Adams & Reeve, 1850))
- Metula fusiformis Clench & Aguayo, 1941: synonym of Manaria fusiformis (Clench & Aguayo, 1941) (original combination)
- Metula guppyi Olsson & Bayer, 1972: synonym of Bartschia guppyi (Olsson & Bayer, 1972) (original combination)
- Metula hindsii H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858: synonym of Metula metula (Hinds, 1844) (unnecessary substitute name for Buccinum metula, established to avoid tautonymy)
- Metula rehderi (Kilburn, 1977): synonym of Kanamarua hyatinthus Shikama, 1973
- Metula significans (Rehder, 1943) : synonym of Bartschia significans Rehder, 1943
- Metula somalica Bozzetti, 1993: synonym of Kanamarua somalica (Bozzetti, 1993) (original combination)
- Metula vicdani Kosuge, 1989: synonym of Kanamarua hyatinthus Shikama, 1973
- 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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