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Notocrater craticulatus

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ3168221 ↗
Source-derived summary

Notocrater craticulatus is a southern, cold-water, deepwater species of limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudococculinidae, one of the families of false limpets.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand.

References

Powell A. W. B., William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

Marshall B.A. (1986 ["1985"]) Recent and Tertiary Cocculinidae and Pseudococculinidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand and New South Wales. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 12: 505-546

Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. pp 232–254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Notocrater craticulatus” as species of mollusc. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 1986, 1985, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Notocrater, craticulatus and species can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as species of mollusc. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3168221. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1979, 1986, 1985 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Notocrater craticulatus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.