Notocrater

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Notocrater
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Order: Patellogastropoda
Family: Lepetidae
Genus: Notocrater
Finlay, 1927
Species

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Notocrater is a genus of true deep water limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Lepetidae, true limpets.

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[edit] Distribution

This genus is endemic to New Zealand.

[edit] Description

Notocrater shells are small, oval, elevated, with a hooked apex near to the anterior end. Sculpture is of oblique radials crossed by concentric grooves.

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