Metula
Shell of Metula africana (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Colubrariidae
Genus: Metula
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
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

Metula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Colubrariidae.[1]

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).[2]

Species

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

References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2010). Metula H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225377 on 1 April 2011
  2. ↑ Fossilworks
  • 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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