Metula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
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).
Species in the genus Metula include:
Metula aegrota (Reeve, 1845)Metula africana Bouchet, 1988Metula agassizi Clench & Aguayo, 1941Metula amosi Vanatta, 1913Metula andamanica Smith, 1906Metula angioyorum Parth, 1992Metula bozzettii Parth, 1990Metula crosnieri Bouchet, 1988Metula cumingi A. Adams, 1853Metula daphnelloides Melville & Standen, 1903Metula ellena Olsson & Bayer, 1972Metula elongata Dall, 1907Metula frausseni Bozzetti, 1995Metula gigliottii Coltro, 2005Metula guppyi Olsson & Bayer, 1972Metula kilburni Parth, 1994Metula lintea Guppy, 1882Metula metula (Hinds, 1844)Metula metulina (Kuroda & Habe in Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971)Metula minor Olsson & Bayer, 1972Metula olssoni Woodring, 1928Metula optima Olsson & Bayer, 1972Metula parthi Bondarev, 1997Metula reticularis Traub, 1938Metula tumida Xiutong & Suping, 2000Species brought into synonymy Metula significans (Rehder, 1943) : synonym of Bartschia significans Rehder, 1943
