Metula
Shell ofMetula africana (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
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
Type species
Buccinum clathratum A. Adams & Reeve, 1850
Synonyms[1]
AcamptochetusCossmann, 1901 AgassitulaOlsson & Bayer, 1972 AntemetulaRehder, 1943 AntimitraIredale, 1917 ColubrarinaKuroda & Habe in Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971 FloritulaOlsson & Bayer, 1972 MinitulaOlsson & Bayer, 1972 Mitromorpha (Antimitra)Iredale, 1917

Metula is agenus ofsea snails,marinegastropodmolluscs in thefamilyColubrariidae.^[1]

This genus is known in the fossil records from thePaleocene to theQuaternary (age range: from 61.7 to 0.781 million years ago).^[2]

Species in the genusMetula include:

Species brought into synonymy

• Metula agassiziClench & Aguayo, 1941: synonym ofBartschia agassizi(Clench & Aguayo, 1941) (original combination)
• Metula anfracturaMatthews & Rios, 1968: synonym ofBartschia agassizi(Clench & Aguayo, 1941)
• Metula boswellaeKilburn, 1975: synonym ofKanamarua boswellae(Kilburn, 1975) (original combination)
• Metula canetae(Clench & Aguayo, 1944): synonym ofGaillea canetae(Clench & Aguayo, 1944)
• Metula chetyzecchiaeBozzetti, 1992: synonym ofMetula metulina(Kuroda & Habe, 1971)
• Metula clathrata(A. Adams & Reeve, 1850): synonym ofMetula knudseniKilburn, 1975 (based on junior primary homonym)
• Metula clathrataKnudsen, 1956: synonym ofMetula africanaBouchet, 1988 (secondary homonym of M. clathrata (Adams & Reeve, 1850))
• Metula fusiformisClench & Aguayo, 1941: synonym ofManaria fusiformis(Clench & Aguayo, 1941) (original combination)
• Metula guppyiOlsson & Bayer, 1972: synonym ofBartschia guppyi(Olsson & Bayer, 1972) (original combination)
• Metula hindsiiH. Adams & A. Adams, 1858: synonym ofMetula metula(Hinds, 1844) (unnecessary substitute name forBuccinum metula, established to avoid tautonymy)
• Metula rehderi(Kilburn, 1977): synonym ofKanamarua hyatinthusShikama, 1973
• Metula significans (Rehder, 1943) : synonym ofBartschia significansRehder, 1943
• Metula somalicaBozzetti, 1993: synonym ofKanamarua somalica(Bozzetti, 1993) (original combination)
• Metula vicdaniKosuge, 1989: synonym ofKanamarua hyatinthusShikama, 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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• Colubrariidae

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