Notocrater Finlay 1926 ...

• Main Author: Lima, Silvio Felipe Barbosa
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Lepetellida; Pseudococculinidae; Notocrater; New Zealand; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5669991; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5669991

Genus Notocrater Finlay, 1926 Type species. Cocculina craticulata Suter, 1908 by original designation. Recent, New Zealand (Marshall 1986). Characterization. Shell small (SL: 1.30 to 3.75 mm; SW: 1.00 to 3.15 mm; SH: 0.60 to 1.80 mm), thin, translucent white or white; outline in dorsal view elongate-oval to elliptical; anterior region moderately to highly arched, occupying 68 to 100% of shell length; edge usually thin, sharp. Apex subcentral to posterior of center. Protoconch (PL: 167 to 233 µm; PW: 92.67 to 133 µm), barely to well below highest point of shell, subcentral to well posterior of center (may be vertically very close the posterior edge), with posterior margin slightly to well embedded in posterior slope of teleoconch; surface completely smooth or sculptured with low, fine, dense, irregularly scattered to clumped crystals, some forming crisp, anastomosing threads or surface completely covered with anastomosing threads; apical fold long and narrow, gradually tapering, tip rather fused, suture at ... : Published as part of Lima, Silvio Felipe Barbosa, 2014, Notocrater christofferseni n. sp. (Vetigastropoda: Pseudococculinidae): first record of the genus in the South Atlantic Ocean, pp. 178-186 in Zootaxa 3873 (2) on page 179, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3873.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/226440 ...